From discovering a rare species of plant when he was just fourteen to his three decades at the helm of the Missouri Botanical Garden, Dr. Peter Raven has dedicated his life to botany. Fitting then that the septuagenarian Raven was honored earlier this month with the National Council for Science and the Environment (NCSE) Lifetime Achievement
Award.
The Economist magazine is out with an article on the little-known prairie-restoration project inside Cavalry Cemetery. The 477-acre graveyard in north St. Louis City is the final resting place of playwright Tennessee Williams and Civil War general William Tecumseh Sherman. It's also home to more prairie plants than you'll find anywhere around. Per the Economist (with some of its uniquely British spellings): A detailed study found more than 130 species of native prairie plants,
from the tallgrass
