The 2023 leaf-peeping season has officially kicked off in Colorado’s High Country, bringing pockets of fall color to mountainsides across the state. Thanks to above-average precipitation in past months, forest experts say this year’s ephemeral.
Fungi are already perplexing. They’re not animal, nor plant, but provide crucial support to both while serving as one of the planet’s main decomposers. But the fruiting bodies of fungi, widely known as mushrooms, are.