db wrote on Dec 21^st, 2012 at 6:46am:


Back several hundred million years in geologic time (Pennsylvanian) I've  seen fossil dragonflies, some with 3 foot wing spans, cockroaches were huge.  In addition, clubmosses, which are at best three inches tall in the BWCA, use to tower to 120 feet and five feet in diameter.  Just think what global warming could do for us now with the climate when the CO2 was first tied up in the coal seams.


starwatcher

starwatcher wrote on Dec 21^st, 2012 at 4:44pm:

This post indicates a good way to take a light weight field guild with you on trips (as long as you have a little time and a digital camera with a usable sized viewing screen...with a zoom feature).

Take close-up pictures of individual pages from the field guild (pre-trip).  When you want to look something up, just swap out your picture taking card with the "field guild" card and scan for the topic of interest.  Tip:  You might want to take a set of spare batteries because you are likely to use your camera more.

I've used this technique for a variety of things for trips, including spare maps, menus, recipes, picto descriptions, etc.  The extra cards weigh nothing!  Think of it as your pre-trip digital nopepad.

BTW: With a little technical knowledge, you can just download images from your computer to the card directly without taking pictures, but this is not always straight forward.

But, if you are already a Kindle person ... problem solved!

dd

I had this great realization that if I read this thread religiously, I might actually learn something.  Great feeling.  Keep it up! 

prouboy

Spartan2 wrote on Dec 21^st, 2012 at 1:56pm:

Could be a boletus subvelutipes? (If so, not edible, not one of the "gourmet" boletus species)

Fungi are an older kingdom than either plants or animals, so we should be honored to have them in this thread.

There was a morel thread somewhere a little while ago, and there seem to be a at least a few other amateur mycologists on QJ.

Thanks Starwatcher.  I've been canoeing the QP and BWCA for over 20 years, and this last fall was the first and only time I ever such a thing.  I was amazed to see the water full of these things, took the picture, then asked around about what this was when I got back to the Twin Cities.  Doubt I'll ever see it again!  But you never know....

prouboy