Researchers

Richard Felger received his Ph.D. at the University of Arizona. His dissertation analyzed the vegetation and flora of the islands and Gulf Coast of Sonora, Mexico. Subsequently he was on the faculty of the University of Colorado, Boulder, and then Senior Curator of Botany at the Los Angeles County Museum of Natural History. Returning to Tucson, he continued his research and conservation activities in aridlands, concentrating on the Gulf of California and Sonoran Desert Region. He has been active in regional and international conservation, including pioneer conservation of sea turtles along the Pacific Coast of the Americas. He a Research Associate at the Sky Islands Alliance and Associated Researcher, University of Arizona Herbarium, School of Plant Sciences, University of Arizona. A leading botanical authority of the Sonoran Desert, Dr. Felger has close to a half century of experience in this region. His classic work with Mary Beck Moser, People of the Desert and Sea: Ethnobotany of the Seri Indians (1985, 1990, University of Arizona Press) has preserved considerable indigenous knowledge of the Comcáac (Seri) homeland, and the book Plant Life of a Desert Archipelago with Wilder and Romero-Morales on the flora of the Sonoran Islands marks the continuation of his contributions to the understanding of Sonoran Desert botanical diversity. http://ag.arizona.edu/herbarium/people/associated-researchers/richard-felger