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| Enjoying lunch on a Finnish bog - in January! | I
hold a baby Tasmanian Devil in Hobart. |
Pitcher plants (Sarracenia) in a southern Georgia bog | Nic
Tippery in a southern Mississippi wetland |
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Benoit (left) discusses Hydrilla with TNC staff
during a training session. |
Collecting
aquatic plants always is exciting! |
Aponogeton lancesmithii
in northeastern Queensland, so named for its discoverer
(see right). |
Lance
Smith gathers Aponogeton from his commercial ponds. |
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| A vintage
photo showing some of Australia's ferocious wildlife. |
Some
specimens NEVER should be collected. |
Subtle
natural landmarks help us to locate Nymphaeas in a
remote section of Queensland. |
Key
provisions for Aussie field work |
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| A lethal
brown snake awaits wary plant collectors in the
"Atherton Tablelands". |
The
tropics down under |
The late
Australian aquatic plant expert Surrey Jacobs
contemplates a day of field work (1999). |
Beautifully
reflective gum trees (Nyssa) in
South Carolina |
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| Field
work in Australia never is dull! |
Wetlands
near Perth, Australia |
Western Australian seagrass
habitat |
Somebody actually named this fossil after me! |
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| A friendly warning at a Texas Najas locality! | Casey
Williams helps us collect Najas and other aquatics in Texas. |
Why they don't rent cars to botanists ... | Deborah
White (Kentucky DNR)
leads us to a Najas
gracillima site. |
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| Near Flathead Lake, Montana | The amazing Darlingtonia californica | Field work "out west" |
Western Washington
wetland
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Ursula makes a new friend
on a recent
Najas collecting trip!
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Hamid
relaxes near the
Arizona/Mexico border.
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Luckily,
this field trip was un-bear-able! |
The beautiful Pacific coast | |
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| A tranquil western USA wetland | "A-moose-ing"
fieldwork? |
WAY too
much Ludwigia in
California! |
A Najas flexilis pond in
Alaska
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| Najas minor invades an Ohio lake | In the Sierra Nevada | A "serpentine" outcrop in Minnesota | Hamid "horses around" in Oregon | |
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| Mt. McKinley looms over an
Alaskan lake |
Howdy from 62o N latitude | Spectacular Alaska! | Cottongrass | |
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| A grazing caribou | The fading Matanuska glacier | Feeling like Goldilocks
(behind a 200 mm lens) |
Yep, there's Najas in
there! |
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| The Alaska Range |
A day at the office | No aquatic plants here - why
didn't they tell me? |
The introduced Muskox |
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| View from the Denali Highway |
What a living Dall ! |
Angie puts herself in harm's way of glacial advance | Whoops, almost missed it! |
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| Collecting one way or an
"otter"? |
Signs that warn of danger
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"Pond"-ering the landscape | "Wolf-Dog" guards the room |