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Tal Galton
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Emerging Ephemerals
One of Earth’s great spectacles is coming to a patch of woods near you. For the past 10 months, multitudes of tubers and bulblets have...
Tal Galton
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Firefly summer, foxfire fall
The brightest nights in the forest are under a full moon in winter, after the leaves have fallen. On magical moonlit nights when there is...
Tal Galton
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Why Efts Worship Mushrooms
Further evidence that the world of the forest revolves around #fungi. If you’ve hiked with me, you’ve heard me rhapsodize about how...
Tal Galton
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Magical Fireflies of the Blue Ridge Mountains
“Hello darkness, my old friend…” — Paul Simon Like many beautiful and fantastical natural phenomena, the phosphorescence of fireflies is...
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