1 June 2011
Posted by Callan Bentley
It wasn’t just bugs that we saw at Dolly Sods, West Virginia, over the weekend. There were some plants, too.
Here’s a look at the typical Dolly Sods scene, with spruce trees and aspen and alder and a boggy trail:
“Lady slipper” orchid:
Fiddleheads unfurling into ferns:
And, of course, one of my favorite things to do with plants is to reverse the photosynthesis that constructed them:
Callan Bentley is Associate Professor of Geology at Piedmont Virginia Community College in Charlottesville, Virginia. He is a Fellow of the Geological Society of America. For his work on this blog, the National Association of Geoscience Teachers recognized him with the James Shea Award. He has also won the Outstanding Faculty Award from the State Council on Higher Education in Virginia, and the Biggs Award for Excellence in Geoscience Teaching from the Geoscience Education Division of the Geological Society of America. In previous years, Callan served as a contributing editor at EARTH magazine, President of the Geological Society of Washington and President the Geo2YC division of NAGT.
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