Tree Cores Come to the Herbarium

…Science Laboratory at UNCG, where Mitchell studies under Dr. Paul Knapp. Their research focuses on the influence of atmospheric CO2 on the growth rates of woody species in arid environments…

Therapeutic Horticulture History and Staff

…Therapeutic Horticulture Program Manager erweaver@unc.edu Emilee Weaver has been a professional horticulturist for 24 years in five different states/climates in the U.S. Fourteen of those years have been spent as…

Mary Eugenia Wharton

…Wharton. “Mary Eugenia Wharton was born in Jessamine County, Kentucky on October 12, 1912. At age four she moved to Lexington, where as a child she enjoyed experiencing nature in…

John Robert Raper

…and training he desired, and feeling that he had been trapped by circumstances, did what he could to insure that his children obtain the education he had been denied. Mother’s…

Laura Ellen Jarrett McGlamery

…in Oak Forest Cemetery in Hayesville, Clay County, North Carolina with her husband and youngest daughter.(1)   SOURCES Find A Grave Memorial ID: 18899410 “Laura Ellen Jarrett McGlamery”. https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/18899410/laura-ellen-mcglamery accessed…

Richard Joel Reader

…AMF?. Mycorrhiza 12: 297–301. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00572-002-0186-5 Thurston, Eden and Richard J. Reader. 2001. Impacts of experimentally applied mountain biking and hiking on vegetation and soil of a deciduous forest. Environmental Management…

Hugo Leander Blomquist

…born in Sorsele, Sweden, on June 5, 1885 [sic; June 5, 1888], but emigrated with his parents to Kulm, North Dakota, in 1892 when he was seven. [Betty Blomquist Matthews,…

Egbert Hamilton Walker

…his Ph.D. in 1940 [from Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore, Maryland] on a dissertation topic entitled “Revision of the eastern Asiatic Myrsinaceae“. When he retired in 1958, he had been