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Tending the Commons: Folklife and Landscape in Southern West Virginia
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Item Title
E. Lucy Braun, the pioneering ecologist who identified the mixed mesophytic forest as a coherent system. [Photo]
Author/Creator
Photographer: Hufford, Mary
Created/Published
October 20, 1994
Notes
In an entry for the <u>Biographical Dictionary of North American Environmentalists</u>, L. Ron Stuckey describes E. Lucy Braun as "One of the most original thinkers in the developing field of plant ecology during the first half of the twentieth century in North America. A faithful and dedicated worker in the field of conservation and the preservation of natural areas. An independent investigator with firm and strong beliefs who allowed little deviation for argument and disagreement. A perfectionist striving for thoroughness and accuracy with meticulous attention to detail in her scientific work. Her book, <u>Deciduous Forests</u>, was acclaimed by F. Fosberg as a definitive work that 'reached a level of excellence seldom or never before attained in American ecology or vegetation science, at least in any work of comparable importance.' It remains her most remembered and lasting achievement."
Subjects
Braun, E. Lucy (Emma Lucy), 1889-1971
Photo
Ethnography
Photographs
Cincinnati, OH
Object Type
Related Names
Depicted: Braun, E. Lucy (Emma Lucy), 1889-1971
Medium
35 mm Color Slide
Language
English
Call Number
CRF-MH-C020-02
Part of
The Coal River Folklife Collection (AFC 1999/008)
Repository
Library of Congress, Archive of Folk Culture, American Folklife Center, Washington, D.C. 20540 USA
Digital ID
afccmns mhc02002
http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.afc/afccmns.mhc02002