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Martin Lockley
https://ucmp.berkeley.edu/science/trackways/trackways6.php history of UC tracks collection

https://clas.ucdenver.edu/deans-notes/2019/04/23/lockley-latest-dino-track-discovery  Lockley on latest discovery (2019)

https://fossilvertebratesandtraces.colorado.edu/index.php/About/FossilTracksCollection About the collection

Dinosaur Tracks: And Other Fossil Footprints of the Western United States           see jpg excerpt from acknowledgments page xx. By M. G. Lockley, Adrian P. Hunt

http://dinoridge.org/about-dinosaur-ridge/history-discoveries/

Walkin'Jim Stoltz
http://www.spokesman.com/stories/1995/apr/27/walkin-jim-stoltz-at-sfcc/ 1995 Bio/obit: https://walkinjim.com/the-walkin-jim-story/ One of the founders of MUSE: https://www.facebook.com/MUSEecomusic

Alpine Clovers (U.S.)
Trifolium nanum has a page: contents below for draft pattern for two new Trifolium pages, T. parryi, T. dasyphyllum. All linked from list at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clover

T parryi: Trifolium parryi A. Gray Parry's clover https://plants.usda.gov/core/profile?symbol=TRPA5   also http://www.easterncoloradowildflowers.com/Trifolium%20parryi.htm "Trifolium parryi is a common plant in subalpine and alpine environments. Flowering stems are leafless and 1 to 4 inches tall. The banner (large upper petal) is lavendar to rose colored. Compare to Trifolium dasyphyllum, which has a very pale or white banner. Vegetation zone:	 Subalpine, Alpine Time of bloom:	 June - August Origin:	 Native"

T dasy: Trifolium dasyphyllum Torr. & A. Gray alpine clover  https://plants.usda.gov/core/profile?symbol=TRDA2 also http://www.easterncoloradowildflowers.com/Trifolium%20dasyphyllum.htm "Trifolium dasyphyllum grows in clumps in alpine environments. Flowering stems are leafless and 1 to 6 inches tall. The banner (large upper petal) is white or very pale." Compare to Trifolium parryi, which has a lavendar or rose colored banner. Vegetation zone:	 Alpine Time of bloom:	 June - August Origin:	 Native"

Trifolium nanum, the dwarf clover, is a perennial plant from the family Fabaceae. It was first recorded by Edwin James in 1820. Nanum means, "dwarf," in Greek.

Description
Trifolium nanum is a perennial plant small species of clover growing in the Rocky Mountains. Often found at more than 11,000 feet, it is able to survive extreme conditions such as blizzards and extreme cold. Dwarf clover grows in dense mats to survive in its environment of dry, nutrient poor, rocky terrain. Flowers are pink and pea-shaped, blooming June through August.

Sorting out Hymenoxys/Plummera, April 2016
According to Bierner (1994 below), the genus Hymenoxys was named in 1828; the genus Plummera by Asa Gray in 1882. Only two species were in Plummera. Plummera was incorporated into Hymenoxys, a pre-existing genus of many species, in 1994, but it is not equivalent to Hymenoxys as the original wording suggested.

Reference: http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/9302182 SUBMERSION OF DUGALDIA AND PLUMMERA IN HYMENOXYS (ASTERACEAE: HELIANTHEAE: GAILLARDIINAE) 1994 Bierner, Mark W Sida, Contributions To Botany Volume: 16:1-8

Quotes from article below:

"Hymenoxys Cass., Diet. Sci. Nat. 55:278. 1828. Type Species: Hymenopappus anthemoides Juss., Ann. Mus. Natl. Hist. Nat. [Pans] 2:426. 1803.

"Hymenoxys subgenus Plummera (A. Gray) Bierner, stat. nov. Basionym: Plummera A. Gray, Proc. Amer. Acad. Arts 17:215. 1882. Type Species: Plummera floribunda A. Gray.

"The two taxa of Hymenoxys subgenus Plummera could be treated as varieties of a single species, as suggested by Turner et al. (1973). I agree that morphologic differences between the two are slight, but the taxa appear to be geographically isolated from one another without a zone of contact and intergradation. Furthermore, Spring et al. (1994) found several differences between them with regard to sesquiterpene lactone substituents and side chains. For now, the conservative approach of continuing to recognize them as distinct species seems more appropriate."

Also removed this sentence and ref from article Hymenoxys: Harvard University botanist Asa Gray named the genus Plummera in honor of American botanist Sara Plummer Lemmon.

Women in ecology worklist March 2013, minor update March 2016

 * Harriet George Barclay
 * Carol Baskin
 * Janice Beatley
 * Barbara Bentley
 * Emma Lucy Braun
 * Grace Brush
 * Rachel Carson
 * Frances Chew
 * Martha Christensen
 * Edith Clements
 * Beryl Robichaud Collins
 * Verona Conway
 * Martha Crump
 * Margaret Bryan Davis
 * Deborah Dexier
 * Jane C. Dirks-Edmunds
 * Katherine Ewel
 * Mildred Faust
 * Laurel Fox
 * Margaret Gilbert (ecologist)
 * Ada Hayden
 * Frances James (ecologist)
 * Minna Jewell
 * Catherine Keever
 * Jean Langenheim
 * Estella Leopold
 * Frances Louise Long
 * Jane Lubchenco
 * Georgina Mace
 * Susan Martin (ecologist)
 * Emmeline Moore
 * Patrice Morrow
 * Judith Myers (ecologist)
 * Bonita Neiland
 * Margaret Nice
 * Ruth Patrick
 * E.C. Pielou
 * Karen Porter
 * Elsie Quarterman
 * Deborah Rabinowitz
 * Beverly Rathcke
 * Susan Riechert
 * Joan Roughgarden
 * Martha Shackleford
 * Rebecca Sharitz
 * Edith B Shreve
 * Nancy Slack
 * Judy Stamp
 * Nellie Stark
 * Margaret Stewart (ecologist)
 * Gwendolyn Struick
 * Frieda Taub
 * Monica Turner
 * Maxine Watson
 * Pat Werner
 * Beatrice Willard
 * Mary Willson
 * Sarah Woodin
 * Joy Zedler

Added Estella Leopold (new page Feb 2011) to List of ecologists. Original list adapted from Jean Langenheim's 1996 paper in Ann. Rev. Ecol. Systematics.

Other suggestions for Feminists Engage Wikipedia (#tooFEW) are Award Winners listed at.

New bio profiles have been added at https://esa.org/history/biographies/ecological-richness-diverse-contributors-of-diverse-contributions/women-in-ecology-series/ for Barclay, James, Langenheim, and Rathcke.

Griggs
Robert Fiske Griggs, (22 August 1881, in Brooklyn, Connecticut – 10 June 1962), was a botanist who led a 1915 National Geographic Society expedition to observe the aftermath of the Katmai volcanic eruption.

Griggs was active in the Ecological Society of America during his long and distinguished career in plant ecology. In 1943-44, he served as its president and was involved in preserving historical records and promoting the use of "ecological life histories" in studying plants and animals.

Upon retirement in 1953, Griggs continued his ecological studies at Rocky Mountain National Park, Colorado, and published several articles on plant communities in the alpine tundra.

1917 Expedition to Katmai
In June 1917, Griggs and the eager NGS explorers rushed to the Katmai coast with the express goal of exploring the Valley of Ten Thousand Smokes. They quickly worked their way up through the ash-filled Katmai River valley and over the pass. It was a month of terror and elation for the twelve adventurers. Through the long Alaska summer days, they took chemical and geologic samples, shot photographs, and made rough maps. Mincing their way across the crumbling, treacherous surface of the hot ash, they studied the temperatures and temperaments of the roaring fumaroles and explored the perilous margins of the pyroclastic deposits. As they explored and documented the valley, they began to build a picture of the eruption. For five years, the American public had been entranced by the exciting volcanic discoveries in Alaska. Hungry for stories to push the horrors of World War I from their minds, thousands of National Geographic subscribers had thrilled to Griggs’ gripping articles about the adventures of his exploring parties.

As the discoveries unfolded, Griggs became increasingly zealous in his advocacy of the site. His vivid descriptions of the wonders of the Katmai country ignited the interest of what was then a budding conservation movement in the United States. The mysterious volcanic valley seemed an ideal candidate for protection. Griggs and the chiefs of the National Geographic Society campaigned persistently to preserve the area, and in 1918, President Woodrow Wilson declared 1700 sqmi of land as Katmai National Monument.

Career chronology

 * 1903 B.S., Ohio State University
 * 1903-1905 Assistant professor of biology, Fargo College, North Dakota
 * 1906 M.A., University of Minnesota
 * 1911 Received Ph.D., Harvard University
 * 1906-1921 Assistant professor of botany, Ohio State University
 * 1921-1947 Professor at George Washington University
 * 1927 President of the Washington Botanical Society
 * 1932-33 President of the Washington Academy of Sciences
 * 1940-47 Chairman of the Division of Biology and Agriculture, the National Research Council
 * 1943-44 President of the Ecological Society of America
 * 1947-1952 Professor of biology, University of Pittsburgh
 * 1952 Professor emeritus of botany at the University of Pittsburgh
 * 1953 Field investigator for National Park Service, Colorado, conducting research in Rocky Mountain National Park

Nuts
Re: discussion of List of culinary nuts with User:Waitak. It seems there's no real (agreed-upon, long-term) solution. A friend recommended "A Systematic Treatment of Fruit Types," which discusses the many definitions and their origins plus structures: I especially liked the following two quotes (temporarily placed here for reference only):


 * The meaning of nut sensu Gaertner (1788) was more narrowly defined by Necker (1790) who introduced the term achene—a fruit with a one-layered pericarp containing a seed—in contrast to nut having a two-layered pericarp in which the inner layer was bony. This was in further contrast to drupe defined as a three-layered pericarp in which the exterior layer was membranous, the medial layer was pulpy or fleshy and the inner bony—referred to as a nucleus—equivalent to the term stone.

This piece then goes on for several paragraphs before concluding:


 * In view of the historical confusion over the meanings given to the term nut, especially when botanists continually try find some way to bring them altogether (e.g., Johnson 1931; Judd 1985), it, therefore, seems best to leave the term nut and its varied meanings in the layperson’s realm. Spjut (1994) was not  the only botanist to exclude nut from classification of fruit types; Lindley (1832, 1848), Dickson (1871), Brousse (1880), Wood (1880) and others would seem to have previously decided that achene and/or other terms can be employed with less confusion (Spjut 1994).


 * Thanks so much for looking into this in such depth. I think that, for the purposes of the article, the best is to just have consistent definitions and stick with them. The truth is that there is a continuum between most of these categories, and it's often only for convenience that a given culinary nut is placed in one or another of them. That said, it would be great to sharpen up the definitions, and to give sufficient care to ensuring that the things the article places in these categories really belongs there, even as loose as the categories are. Waitak (talk) 15:34, 9 December 2011 (UTC)

JCOS work in progress
† Note that Boettcher Mansion, although owned by Jefferson County and on Open Space property, is not operated as part of the Open Space system. Most of the parks listed here were part of historic ranches or contain historic features. This table highlights a few exceptional historic sites.

Tidbits and chunks
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_ecology