


Fungi & Lichens
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Additional Resources
Videos & Films
Live from Carl Schurz Park. Susan Hewitt Tour. Fungi and Lichen. 2020
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s1ZlTg59DrE
Science Fridays. Lichens: Tour of a Cranberry Bog with James Lendemer of New York Botanical Garden. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AwMA0vAGP_
The Kingdom: How Fungi Made Our World. Part of Nature of Things Series. CBC.
https://www.cbc.ca/natureofthings/episodes/the-kingdom-how-fungi-made-our-world
Fantastic Fungi. Documentary Film. Film by Fantastic Fungi and Netflix.
Organizations & Websites
How Fungi Can help fight Climate Change
https://www.oneearth.org/how-fungi-can-help-fight-climate-change/
Likin’ the Lichens. New York State Parks Department Blog. May 2017.
https://nystateparks.blog/tag/lichen/
New York Mycological Society
There’s Fungus Among Us. NYS Dept of Environmental Conservation Blog
https://nystateparks.blog/2018/10/30/theres-fungus-among-us/
Teaching Resources
Fungi of NYC, NY. iNaturalist.
https://www.inaturalist.org/projects/fungi-of-nyc-new-york-mycological-society
Lichens of New York. iNaturalist.
https://www.inaturalist.org/projects/lichens-of-new-york-city
Learn About Lichens. U.S. Forest Service.
https://www.fs.fed.us/wildflowers/beauty/lichens/index.shtml
Articles
Yong, Ed. How Lichens Explain and Re-Explain the World . The Atlantic. January, 2019.
https://www.theatlantic.com/science/archive/2019/01/how-lichens-explain-and-re-explain-world/580681/
Coming Soon! Links to historical Park Notes articles.
Books
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