Alice Eaton and her sister Mary Martha Eaton (1868 – 1941) both collected plant specimens around the family home in Youngedin, Western Australia, and near the sources of the Swan and Blackwood Rivers; over 750 of her specimens are retained in the National Herbarium of Victoria.
Elizabeth Coleman White developed the US’s first cultivated blueberry.
Australian botanist and geneticist, and an officer in the Women’s Auxiliary Australian Air Force during World War II
Yellowstone National Park Park Ranger, 1924-1925
American poet
American evolutionary biologist
Australian botanist
As an avid naturalist and talented self-taught botanist, she convinced the Save the Dunes Council to make the pivotal purchase of Cowles Bog in 1953.
After moving to Dune Acres in 1988, Barbara Plampin had time for her passion of botany, meticulously studying the Dunes’s habitats and becoming a persistent advocate for natural land preservation and an expert botanist in her own right.
As a conservationist, she is best known for her work obtaining protection for the stunning fossils near Florissant, Colorado, an area that became a national monument in 1969.