Saturday, August 31, 2013

Sat Aug 31 2013 a tropical forest.

Sat Aug 31 2013
Spend the day in a tropical forest.

But how to take a good picture of a dark
covered forest, with only a few rays of sunshine.





In the afternoon, joined the fantastic ranger walk,
an old wood logger for 30 years, who starts his
retirement today after 17 years in in ranger service.
And  now, I knows everything about .... 

Sitka Spruce
 Light and very strong wood
 Used for airplanes in WW I
 Silver colored, fish net pattern bark
 This one 270 ft heigh, 550 years old





Douglas Fir
 Very strong wood
 Very tick bast, tick enough for a hiding place for bats




Western Hemlock
 The trash of the forest

Nurselogs
 Fallen big trees. offers minerals, moisture
 and warmth for new seedlings.


 But only a few survive when the roots reach soil.
 New trees seems to stand on stilts as the nurselogs
 moulders away.




Mosses or epiphytes, feeding only air and light.
living on bigleaf maples trees




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