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oapen-20.500.12657-574662022-07-19T03:01:04Z The Reindeer Botanist Dathan, Wendy bic Book Industry Communication::B Biography & True Stories bic Book Industry Communication::P Mathematics & science::PS Biology, life sciences::PST Botany & plant sciences This well-researched book is the first biography of one of Canada's most remarkable botanists. Alf Erling Porsild (1901-1977) grew up on the Arctic Station in West Greenland and later served as curator of botany at the National Museum of Canada. He collected thousands of specimens, greatly enlarging the National Herbarium and making it a superb research centre. For nearly twenty years, Porsild studied reindeer activities in Alaska and the Northwest Territories as part of the Reindeer Project designed to encourage grazing animal husbandry among aboriginal peoples. He published extensively, and his meticulous research and observations have particular relevance today with the growing concern over global warming in the Arctic. 2022-07-18T11:54:18Z 2022-07-18T11:54:18Z 2012 book ONIX_20220718_9781552385876_43 17010004 9781552385876 https://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/57466 eng Northern Lights application/pdf Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International 9781552385876.pdf University of Calgary Press 5c7afbd8-3329-4175-a51e-9949eb959527 9781552385876 748 Calgary open access
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This well-researched book is the first biography of one of Canada's most remarkable botanists. Alf Erling Porsild (1901-1977) grew up on the Arctic Station in West Greenland and later served as curator of botany at the National Museum of Canada. He collected thousands of specimens, greatly enlarging the National Herbarium and making it a superb research centre. For nearly twenty years, Porsild studied reindeer activities in Alaska and the Northwest Territories as part of the Reindeer Project designed to encourage grazing animal husbandry among aboriginal peoples. He published extensively, and his meticulous research and observations have particular relevance today with the growing concern over global warming in the Arctic.
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