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But Clover and Jotter had come to find plants, and to make the first botanical study of the Grand Canyon in Western science. Clover and Jotter knew a little about how Native peoples of the canyon used its plants; they likely knew nothing at all about how those plants, in turn, had been shaped over the millennia by the skillful management of Native peoples. Clover and Jotter were the first botanists to make a catalog of the plants there for Western science. Elzada Clover and Lois Jotter, two botanists at the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor, had started down the river 23 days earlier with three boats and four amateur boatmen, none of whom had run the Grand Canyon before. [Extracted from the article] |
