Don't Bust the Crust! Trails T-Shirt JAN22 Stone Eater's

Stone Eater's

this species is native to the volcanic rock of Isla San Martin off the coast of Baja California

Prolific author

Pachypodium rosulatum is a Madagascan xeric shrub known for having a rotund-belly of a basal stem bedecked by thin branchlets and covered in stout conical spines

a small nonvenomous species native to the Sonoran Desert in North America

Don't Bust the Crust! Trails T-Shirt JAN22 Stone Eater'sCryptobiotic soil crusts form when communities of microscopic algae, fungi, lichens, and mosses, grow together in desert soilsgluing soil particles together to form a living symbiotic matrix. These cryptic lifeformsvital to the health of arid ecosystems, are also highly vulnerable to human disturbance. For decades, Jayne Belnap and the amazing folks at the National Parks Service (NPS) have acted as human advocates for these remarkable and unassuming