methods_and_materials

=**Methods and Materials** = = =    





<span style="font-size: 110%; font-family: Georgia,serif">First, we went to Ms. Males in the fall and borrowed a GPS to get the points of a few trees. Then, we went to the flat rock brook center after obtaining the necessary notebook, camera, and pencil, to record our data, and take pictures of the fungi and lichen on the trees. We found two trees with a significant amount of fungi and some lichen on them, and we took pictures and wrote down the location of the points. We walked    <span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255)"><span style="font-family: 'Courier New',Courier,monospace"><span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; color: rgb(23, 222, 30); background-color: rgb(21, 20, 20)">   <span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255)"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255)"><span style="font-family: 'Courier New',Courier,monospace"><span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255)"><span style="font-size: 110%; font-family: Georgia,serif">around on the orange     <span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255)"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255)"><span style="font-family: 'Courier New',Courier,monospace"><span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255)"><span style="font-size: 110%; font-family: Georgia,serif"> path looking for more fungi, but our camera died, and we were unable to     <span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255)"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255)"><span style="font-family: 'Courier New',Courier,monospace"><span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255)"><span style="font-size: 110%; font-family: Georgia,serif"> take more pictures. However, we didn’t see that    <span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255)"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255)"><span style="font-family: 'Courier New',Courier,monospace"><span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255)"><span style="font-size: 110%; font-family: Georgia,serif"> much more fungi, and because it was an unusually cold day, and we weren’t equipped for the weather, we had no gloves; we decided that we had a significant amount of data, and we left Flat Rock. When we went to Flat    <span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255)"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255)"><span style="font-family: 'Courier New',Courier,monospace"><span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255)"><span style="font-size: 110%; font-family: Georgia,serif"> Rock again, we were better equipped battery wise, and we took a lot of pictures, and checked the location where we were last time. There was the same amount    <span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255)"><span style="font-family: 'Courier New',Courier,monospace"><span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; color: rgb(23, 222, 30); background-color: rgb(21, 20, 20)">   <span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255)"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255)"><span style="font-family: 'Courier New',Courier,monospace"><span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255)"><span style="font-size: 110%; font-family: Georgia,serif"> of fungi present on the tree, but the piece of wood had turned black and decaye     <span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255)"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255)"><span style="font-family: 'Courier New',Courier,monospace"><span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255)"><span style="font-size: 110%; font-family: Georgia,serif">d. We saw a lot more fungi than we did last time we visited flat rock brook. <span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255)"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255)"><span style="font-family: 'Courier New',Courier,monospace"><span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255)"><span style="font-size: 110%; font-family: Georgia,serif"> Once again we recorded the data points and took many pictures, for our observations. <span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255)"><span style="font-family: 'Courier New',Courier,monospace"><span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; color: rgb(23, 222, 30); background-color: rgb(21, 20, 20)"> <span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255)"><span style="font-family: 'Courier New',Courier,monospace"><span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; color: rgb(23, 222, 30); background-color: rgb(21, 20, 20)"> <span class="wiki_link"> Introduction to Fungus and Lichen <span style="font-size: 110%; font-family: Georgia,serif"> Data and Results Pictures of trees Conclusion