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My name is Alison Colwell.
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I am a Botanist.
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I work in Yosemite
National Park,
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sitting in this beautiful
spring slope of Goldfields
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and Dwarf Lupine and
Bird's Eyes and Red Maid's
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on a beautiful April afternoon.
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Yosemite is a great
place to be a botanist.
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The diversity, because of
the different rock types,
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the different elevations, the
mountains, the river valleys,
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it all leads to a great
abundance of species
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and plant communities.
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I guess it's kind of
for me a smorgasbord of
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wildflower displays.
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The landscape is nice too,
but it's just habitat
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as far as I am concerned.
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My name is Shelton Johnson,
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I am a Park Ranger
in the Division of
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Interpretation and Education
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here in Yosemite
National Park.
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When I think
of wildflowers,
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I think of concentrations
of color,
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concentrations of life.
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I mean, it's just as if life
itself is being focused
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right in these
little pockets,
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in the soil,
alongside a tree,
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I mean, it's a color,
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it's almost like the stars
fell out of the sky,
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but they're right there in
the ground, looking back up.
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Plants to me are the
great synthesizer,
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they show you how...
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the waters and the climate
and the topography
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and everything
that's going on
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gets kind of
synthesized into
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why this plant is here
at this one spot.
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There's so
many connections,
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and that's what gets
really exciting,
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is the connections.
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I need to step back
every once in a while
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because I'll be
walking around,
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trying to remember the
scientific name of something
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and every once in a while
I can just put that aside,
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and it just hits me,
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there is something gut level
that just connects you,
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and for me it's the
beauty and the color.
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Beauty of course and the
incredible diversity
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in floral structure.
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Color, shape, I mean it's
just a natural attractive,
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we resonate so much
with color and form.
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