Written by Rachel Garwin A week ago, I joined my friend Teage (a Field Naturalist alum) and a group of his UVM students on an “owl prowl,” Teage’s own euphonic term for a night hike. We gathered at the edge of Centennial Woods, where gauzy tufts of white pines and bare hardwood twigs strained the [...]
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Chicken of the Woods
Posted in Discoveries, tagged Becky, Centennial Woods, fungi, kidney failure, mushrooms, tastes like chicken, wild edibles on September 24, 2011 | Comments Off
by Becky Cushing Frog legs, rabbit, octopus, sea lamprey: Tastes just like chicken. But a mushroom? That might take some convincing. Purple toadstools dot moist ground. Tiny aliens emerge from rotting wood. A stalk shoots from leaf litter on the forest floor. Like Alice’s Wonderland, the damp woods in and around Burlington are splattered with [...]
A Bypassed Giant
Posted in Discoveries, tagged Centennial Woods, Forests, Plants, Rachel, Really big trees, White oak on September 16, 2011 | Comments Off
by Rachel Garwin What’s the last amazing thing you overlooked? I discovered mine last Wednesday in Centennial Woods, a 65-acre natural area near the University of Vermont campus. A friend and expert naturalist was sharing his local knowledge with a group of undergrads, and I had tagged along. The familiar path turned to the left [...]