Our headlamps played tricks with colour, turning new spruce tips silver and making a lichen-shagged tree sparkle.
Around 400 species of lichen, which is a cross between a fungus and an algae, grow in the reserve.
The changes in the weather create a crust of hard ice over the lichen, preventing the reindeer from eating.
UNESCO: On the frontlines of climate change: Sami reindeer herders
Guardian spirits are represented by fearsome sandstone statues, wild eyed, teeth exposed, clad in thick coats of moss and lichen.
At Cook It Raw, for a few days of freedom, they scrape lichen off of trees, forage for greens, kill their meat.
WSJ: Collaboration: Master Chefs Gone Wild | Off Duty Spring 50
Mr Woods said the government and charities would have to step in to spend "big money" to start screening the lichen in Wales.
BBC: Lichen in Wales could hold key to antibiotics resistance
Brown and sturdy, their antlers silhouetted against the white, the reindeer clear away the snow to reach the food they rely on in winter: lichen.
By looking at the types of lichen that are in your local area, you can find out whether the air quality is good or bad.
Its characteristic features are the landforms shaped by the Ice Age: glacial ridges, pine and lichen-clad heaths, kettle holes and small ponds filled with crystal clear water.
Only two weeks before we thought the guohtun (lichen) would be good, and now it was completely inaccessible, locked away under the ice' observed a Sami herder.
UNESCO: On the frontlines of climate change: Sami reindeer herders
Other famous folk who have had a species named in honor of them include President Obama (a lichen), Comedian Stephen Colbert (a bug) and Elvis Presley (a wasp).
Before we reach our rest-stop each night, Juvva races ahead to cut down a few trees so the reindeer are better able to pull off the wispy beards of lichen that hang from their branches.
应用推荐