ScienceDaily (Oct. 18, 2010) — Alaska may be staking out yet another claim to a natural treasure, but one which does not immediately meet the eye. In article appearing in October in the journal The Bryologist, a team of researchers from Austria, Norway, Spain and the United States reports the highest diversity of lichens found anywhere on the North American continent from the Klondike Gold Rush National Historical Park (KLGO).
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