I’m still working on my huge backlog of things to add to iNat, but I figured I’ve done enough for today. And then I saw that I hit 1,000 species without going over. https://www.inaturalist.org/observations?hrank=species&place_id=any&user_id=lappelbaum&view=species (okay, so it’s 1,002 if I add cas…

Wow, awesome! Thank you so much!

Woo-hoo! I know exactly how much work that takes and I know how knowledgeable your IDs are. Great job!

[IMG_4138] Not quite 300K but feeling happy about this milestone myself

[image] [image] Much better at ID’ing than observing…

Still keeping to my goal of at least one obs a day [image]

[image] isopodguy: unless I want to photograph spruce trees every day. Do any of these spruce trees host lichens or mosses?

Yes, lot’s! Some neat ones too, although I have very little expertise in identifying them.

I recommend the book macrolichens of the pacific northwest 2nd edition(I think I remember you being in SE alaska) to get you started on that journey An usnea specific book that is good is Usnea in the pacific northwest by daphne fisher stone

[image] I’m better at IDing than at observing… I’m almost reaching 1000 obs and 450 species and hopefully I’ll reach 29k IDs by the end of January

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isopodguy January 29, 2025, 5:41pm 915

I’m trying to do that too! It’s hard to find things in January though, unless I want to photograph spruce trees every day.

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