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COPYRIGHT 2003 Natural History Magazine, Inc.
Only once have I been seriously embarrassed while searching for lichens. The incident took place in 1999, a more innocent time, before it became pretty much unthinkable to "wander onto" a military installation. I was poking around the perimeter of a military airfield in Cornwall, England, the inside of which, even then, was strictly "off limits." But there was no one around, and the control tower was just a smudge on the horizon. I crawled through a hole in the fence and started my survey.
Why would I take such a...
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