Introduction

Hello everyone! My name is Erik Doering. While I may not be a biology major of any kind, I have always taken a keen interest in identifying the wildlife around me. I grew up foraging a little bit with my parents in Wisconsin. My dad and I would walk through the woods and quiz each other on the names of trees, bird calls, and animal tracks. Today I am a professional piloting major at UAA, and while this class doesn’t pertain to my future profession, I have a great deal of personal interest in the flora around me. My favorite plant is a hard one to pin down, but here is a picture of the Forget-Me-Nots I saw while in Hope over Memorial Day Weekend.

Comments

2 responses to “Introduction”

  1. Stefanie Ickert-Bond Avatar

    Welcome Erik, sounds like you received some wilderness training and a good dose of training already. Let’s see if we can augment this with some of the botanical lingo, and sooner or later you will be having conversations with your piloting friends about what you are seeing around the landing strip 🙂 The forget-me-nots are pretty amazing, the fruits have these bizarre projections on them, that are aiding dispersal of the seeds. The images below are from my former graduate student Monte Garroutte.

    1. Erik Doering Avatar
      Erik Doering

      Woah! I love this!

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