Eliot Jenkins

Straight up, the Hoh

Picea sitchensis

Sitka Spruce · Hoh Rain Forest · 20 June 2021

Straight up, the Hoh

Conifer trunks converging overhead - the stiff, layered branching says Sitka spruce - with moss thick enough on the lower branches to read as fur rather than plant.

The Hoh gets three to four metres of rain a year, and almost everything with bark here carries an epiphyte load as a result: club moss and lichen mostly, none of it taking anything from the tree beyond somewhere to sit. A branch can end up heavier in moss than in its own needles.

Birds, insects, plants and other wildlife, mostly from Brooklyn, with some from further afield.

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