Aton Forest Herbarium

Aton Forest maintains an impressive collection of more than 500 botanical samples collected from the lands of The North Egler Preserve in North Norfolk and Colebrook, CT. They include all manner of Aton Forest Flora: grasses, trees, flowering plants, mosses, lichens, etc. We are currently working with scientists to remap these botanicals to the lands where they were collected.

We are also the owner of the Mason Hale, Jr. Collection of the Lichens of Aton Forest, currently on loan to the New York Botanical Garden. The lichen samples were collected during the summer of 1949, and have been the subject of continuing long term lichen studies. We are currently working with lichenologists doing followup research on the lichens of the Egler Preserve and Spaulding Pond Preserve.

For more about Mason Hale, Jr. and his lichen pioneering research, check out the Lichens of Aton Forest.