Carnivorous Conservation

…Carl Linnaeus, a famous 18th-century botanist who developed the modern method of assigning species scientific names, dubbed flytraps “against the order of nature as willed by God.” But Charles Darwin…

George Andrew Christenberry

…“A taxonomic study of the Mucorales in the southeastern United States”. Pilobolus crystallinus in the fungi order Mucorales Image was created by Sava Krstic at Mushroom Observer   Published in…

John R. Bozeman

…several terms. In 1965 he received his MA degree and was well on his way toward a PhD, when he decided he needed to get a job in order to…

Wade Thomas Batson, Jr.

…Year Award; 1976, Education Conservationist of the Year by South Carolina Wildlife Federation; 1982, Order of the Palmetto Award presented by Governor Richard Riley who hosted his Retirement Party at…

New boardwalk open at Mason Farm

…Hurricane Florence, but those funds fell $150,000 short of the full cost of design, engineering, permits, materials, and labor. In order to open the boardwalk to visitors as soon as…

Gertrude I. Grimsley Scott

…brown jug with a corn-cob stopper. Now champagne, etc. is the order of the day… We then scraped away the ‘trash,’ leveled the dirt, and sprinkling down the barn, had…

Carol Enarson, CCCG, Master Gardener

…Gardener course at the Orange County Extension Office in Hillsborough in order to expand her knowledge relating to horticulture. Enarson explained that by becoming an Orange County Extension Master Gardener…

Random Walk through the Herbarium

…As a sand stabilizer, American Beach-grass is known for its extensive rhizome system that links plants and holds sand from readily drifting.”2 Carol Ann McCormick admiring a clump of sugarcane…

Orchids: Masters of Deception

…Darwin’s hunch was justified when such a moth was later discovered. Orchids are now known to use astonishingly bizarre tricks in order to stick their sacs of pollen onto insects….

Egbert Hamilton Walker

…good order and evidence of care he finds there, largely the work of Egbert Walker over many years.” Egberts taxonomic research centered on the Myrsinaceae of eastern Asia… He received…