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Wednesday, October 12, 2016

New web site: Northernforestatlas.org with a moss photographic guide


I am pleased to announce that a new website devoted to botanical and ecological imagery, Northernforestatlas.org, has just gone live.

The scope is the Northern Forest Region, from Atlantic Canada and northern New England to the prairie edge. 

It currently has searchable image libraries, mostly of high-resolution, stacked, studio photographs, of mosses, sedges, and woody plants; ecological and identification charts and graphics; low-altitude, high-definition air videos; articles and blogs; and previews of books and digital products, some for sale and some free, that will be available in the next few months.
t is a straight-forward site, little text, no clutter, but with several nice features. You can search for images by expanding trees of taxa and habitats, and so, for example, see all the northern forest species of Caliergon, or all the sedges that occur on sandy seacoasts. And you can look at a page of thumbnails of available images and choose the ones you want to compare.

And, of course, it has a space for comments, which I will moderate and very much hope you will take advantage of. I value Bryonet highly, and the chance hear from any of you and get to know you better would be welcome.

The site is the result of four years of intense work by myself and others, backed by the Northern Forest Atlas Foundation and its chair Ed McNeil (who built the aircraft for videography and does the filming), by the Adirondack Program of the Wildlife Conservation Society and its director Zoe Smith, and by a wonderful group of donors. We currently have about 5,000 still images, two hours of video, 24 ecological and identification graphics, 12 products under development, and 8 articles.

More are coming. In the next few years we plan to add images of mammals, birds, herbs, and grasses, and publish photographic guides to mosses and sedges, and the first of our book-length field guides, to woody plants.

So, please visit, and let me know what you think.  Some pages you may like are:


Maine and Nova Scotia coast: http://northernforestatlas.org/2016/10/11/photo-blog-2-maine-nova-scotia/

Atlas Moss Camp, 2016: http://northernforestatlas.org/2016/09/03/open-river-corridors/

Big Northern Forest Moss Chart: http://northernforestatlas.org/2016/07/29/moss-genera-of-the-northern-forest-acrocarps-2/

Digital Atlas of Northern Forest Bryophytes (available for download this winter): http://northernforestatlas.org/2016/01/26/moss-digital-atlas/

Cryptograms of te boreal forest floor (photographic charts and diagrams): http://northernforestatlas.org/2016/08/31/cryptogams-of-the-boreal-forest-floor/

With every good wish to you all,

Jerry Jenkins

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