Check out these western cedar images:
Western Red Cedar with Light
Image by edgeplot
Afternoon light streams through an ancient western red cedar near Stevens Pass, Washington.
Western Red-cedar with Unknown Lichens
Image by brewbooks
Western Red-cedar Thuja plicata Cupressaceae
I believe the very pale green is where Oregon Lungwort (Lobaria oregana) was attached. Maybe the brown are fruiting bodies??
This is a leaf lichen
www.lichen.com/bigpix/Loregana.html
Found at Mount Rainier National Park, near the start of the Carbon River Glacier trail
About 2500 foot elevation
MRNP Carbon Glacier 18 Dec 04
Pierce County, Washington, USA
Reference Mathews, Daniel (1999). Cascade-Olympic Natural History (2nd ed.). Portland, Oregon : Raven Editions. ISBN 0-9620782-1-2 pp. 290-1
Western redcedar (Thuja plicata)
Kingdom: Plantae
Division: Pinophyta
Class: Pinopsida
Order: Pinales
Family: Cupressaceae (Cypress family)
Genus: Thuja
Binomial name Thuja plicata
MRNP Carbon Glacier 18 Dec 04
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