Sense of Place

Tag: Fungal Ecology

  • Flourishing Fungi: Snow Fungus

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    Nicolette Cagle
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    By Nicolette L. Cagle, Ph.D., July 26, 2026 Location: Duke Forest, Durham, NC near New Hope Creek and Hollow Rock The humid air and moist ground had turned the world into a wonderland of the bizarre, letting loose towering white mushrooms that reached my knee, pairs of greenhouse millipedes entwined on trees, and a determined…

  • What Happens to a Nut on the Forest Floor?

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    by Nicolette L. Cagle, June 1, 2026 What happens to a hickory nut or walnut after it falls to the forest floor? At first, it can seem like a simple thing, a stored future released from the canopy and left beneath the tree that made it. Imagine a hickory nut resting inside its husk, a…