Great article! I missed it when it was new, but it's still great! A few years ago I found moss growing beside the road in a trickle of water from a spring, in full sunlight here in the high desert of eastern Oregon! I could hardly believe my eyes! Sharon, you probably saw a lot of moss when you went to coastal Alaska. Southeast Alaska sure has a lot of it, deep and lush, growing on tree trunks, logs, rocks and roofs. It was a problem on roofs. Just this week the news out of Portland, Oregon was about a test done on moss by the EPA showed a lot of pollution from industrial emissions, and they are telling people within half a mile of certain places not to eat vegetables grown there. Scary. I found it interesting that they tested the moss. It's a good indicator! Aunt Bett was right!
