Ateo - 12-5-2022 at 12:21 PM
Great Interview with coauthor of the Baja California Plant Field Guide….
https://anchor.fm/slow-baja/episodes/Jon-Rebman-Conserving-T...
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Jon P. Rebman is the Curator of Botany at the San Diego Natural History Museum. Originally from rural Illinois, Rebman landed a Fulbright Fellowship
that took him to study in Ensenada. During his year south of the border, Rebman traveled the peninsula cataloging cholla cacti with his fellow
students and the Universidad Autónoma de Baja California faculty. He credits this formative experience for igniting his passion for the region's rare
endemic flora.
Rebman earned a doctorate from Arizona State University and wrote his dissertation on the Cylindropuntia (Chollas) cactus family of Baja California.
He is a profoundly energetic expert on Southern and Baja California plants and is relentless in identifying them. Rebman says, "if you can't name it,
you can't conserve it." Through the crowd-sourced iNaturalist App, Rebman has answered more than 500,000 plant genus inquiries, I am optimistic he
will hit a million answers soon.
Rebman authored the Baja California Plant Field Guide with Norman Roberts and co-authored the stunning new bilingual photographic book A Guide To The
Flora Of The Sierra De San Pedro Martir. Both are available from the San Diego Natural History Museum Shop here.
Thanks to Cypress Hansen at the Nat for walking me through the fabulous new Expedition Baja display and for her work arranging this conversation.
Additional thanks to Robert Blaker and his daughter, Sierra Blaker, for planting the seed for this show more than a year ago.
[Edited on 12-5-2022 by Ateo]