And how scientist Tanya Atwater was at the center of it all.
Melissa L. Sevigny
Melissa L. Sevigny is an Arizona writer whose work centers on the intersections of science, nature and history in the Western U.S. Her most recent book is Brave the Wild River, which won a National Outdoor Book Award and a Reading the West Award.
Posted inMay 1, 2023: Reemergence
Tenacious specimens of the Grand Canyon
In the 1930s, two women risked their lives to record a scientific survey of the region’s plants.