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Plant ecologist on the Wetherill Mesa Archaeological Project, Mesa Verde National Park, from the summer of '59 to '64 -- living there with young family from '62 to '64. With my major professor, my main publication there was "The Environment of Mesa Verde, Colorado."
Taught at Fort Lewis College, Durango, Colorado, from '66 to '67 after which I was employed by the U.S. Geological Survey, Denver, as botanist in the field of geochemistry, using plant-tissue analysis in the search for mineral occurrences (uranium, then copper, finally gold), and in studying environmental-contamination issues all over the West, including Alaska and Sonora, MX. That, from '67 to '96 when 500 of the 2,000 scientists in the then Geologic Division were RIFd in '95.
I published 100 papers and some three-dozen abstracts over that period. My wife of 34 years died in '94. In '98 I moved to the former mining town of Crestone in the remote San Luis Valley -- a cold desert at 7,500 ft -- of south-central Colorado, living in a strawbale house on the western flank of the Sangre de Cristo Range. In '07 I left that valley to live in a passive-solar hermit-hut in Glacier View Meadows, a subdivision in the mountains northwest of Fort Collins, a city noted for its green focus. As I'd done in the Crestone area, I now volunteer for many causes, including frog surveys and rare-plant mapping for the city's Natural Areas Program, Conservation Easement monitoring of over 100 ranches and farms, mostly, for the Legacy Land Trust, and documenting for the non-profit Mummy Range Institute a unique alpine-tundra landscape of a peak unique to this Laramie Mountains region intended by the county for a radio tower.
