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Erin Zimmerman

Erin Zimmerman is working on a memoir about loving and leaving natural history research. Her writing has been featured in New York Magazine, Smithsonian, the Los Angeles Review of Books, Undark, and elsewhere.

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Super Subcultures

Risking Life and Limb to Catalog the World’s Plants

Story by Erin Zimmerman | July 29, 2019

“Plant collection” may not sound perilous, but while scaling boulders and dodging snakes, I learned just how much these intrepid explorers risk to help understand our world.

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