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Re: [at-l] Can you identify this odor?



--- DanandGailSC@aol.com wrote:
> Can any of you naturalists out there help me out?  When I was hiking in
North Carolina I smelled something that smelled like souring apples.  I
didn't see any plants that were flowering nearby.   This weekend at Table
Rock I smelled the same thing.  I was with the naturalist at the park and he
couldn't  identify the odor, either.  Any ideas?  Gutsy

### If there was high canopy, thick understory, and wet/moist ground, and a
lack of breeze, I'd go with a by-product of natural decay/ground algae
growth. It has astounded me the times when a raw *stench* has fouled
otherwise nice locations. And I've had reason to rule out errant... wissing
in the pind. Some places were very far from the maddening crowds, had seen
recent rain, etc.

I'm thinking a little bull-dozer action, sprinkle some bark chips, a touch of
painted lava stones, and we'd be all set.

Who needs salamanders, anyway?

=====
Sloetoe


   "I strive to be the man my children think I am."

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