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Ah, but a pound of green lichen will encourage the clams hunger. Then he will open his mouth to eat and you will be able to snatch your gift. It all works.

Asian market?? Local swimmin' hole?? The underside of an unwashed morbidly obese web designer?? There's a number of places to find that good stuff.

Sorry my good man but those secrets are only for members of The Great Lichen Lovin' Guild of America. Maybe if you signed up I can give you all of my mystical super secret secrets concerning the ins and outs of lichen.

Yes I do believe knowledge should be shared which is why I'm going to share with you that I AM BLUFFING!!!! I know nothing about lichen, but if you wanted to ask me about Ammophila (european beach grass) I can tell you a fair bit.

You really want to hear about ammophila??? Well, first off is that it is a beach grass. We actually have an American ammophila but it only grows near the great lakes. But the ammophila here on the west coast is actually of European decent, and was brought here in the 30s I think, I don't know but, suffice it to say, a long time ago some europeans brought it over convinced that it would do the beaches good to plant this crap. So they did, in Oregon, to help stabilize the dunes. It has subsequently traveled south to the beaches I'm working on in Humboldt county and has also destroyed most of the natural occurring ecosystems there. Most of the native plants rely on the dunes migrating and since the ammophila has stopped the dunes from moving, it is now no good for those plants. It's even messing things up for the animals, because it's so tall, while the natives are ground crawling plants, it leaves poor visibility, so some of the birds are laying less eggs due to the change in environment.

if you want to learn more, you should visit http://www.friendsofthedunes.org/
its very informative. As a matter fact the CCC work for friends of the dunes some times.

Yeah, I'll tell you who's ammophila's enemy is. I AM AMMOPHILA'S WORST NIGHTMARE!!!! Although if you're talking about critters that eat ammophila, there are none here in the states.

I'm afraid that is the way it must be.