Stone walls can be found here and there in other states, but only in New England are they nearly ubiquitous. That’s due to a regionally unique combination of hard crystalline bedrock, glacial soils ...

Stone walls can be found here and there in other ... in his neighborhood depend on it as a unique habitat. To lichens and moss, the wall’s dry stones are surfaces where plants can’t compete.

These soil surfaces on the Great Wall are covered by a ... Past studies have found lichen and moss biocrusts to be a destructive threat to modern heritage stone structures due to the microbial ...

It was something special." They didn't know it at the time, but not quite 70 feet below the surface, they'd stumbled upon a stone wall more than half a mile long that dated back to the Stone Age ...

Stone walls can be found here and there in other ... in his neighborhood depend on it as unique habitat. To lichens and moss, the wall’s dry stones are surfaces where plants can’t compete.

To lichens and moss, the wall’s dry stones are surfaces where plants can’t compete. For plants, such walls are edges that separate patches of ground into zones that are sunny or shady, windward or ...