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gunnison utah on october 3 1991 canyon and conducted many field tours at out after several years of ill health his passing planting common garden range rehabilitation deserves comment because he was a man who and other research sites throughout utah and the made a difference in natural resource manage- intermountain area under these circumstances ment and research in the intermountainintel mountain area he he was a master teacherwhose points made lasting spent his professional career 1936 1979 with the impressions on whoever was there agency land intermountain research station INT formerly manager private landowner public school the intermountain forest and range experiment teacher washington office forest service station of the forest service US department research administrator politician junior col- of agriculture at duty stations in utah near mil- league or university professor ferdandfordandford and in ogden ephraim and provo perry had a rare gift of integrating in his mind the potential vegetative states ofdegraded lands TEACHER AND MENTOR because he knew soil types compatible plant associations plant adaptations planting equip- perry was a caring effective mentor and ment and seedbed requirements because of teacher his assignment with the forest service this gift and his willingness to share it he was was research and research administration often called on to consult those responsible for which he did well but his professional love was rehabilitating degraded lands typically he teaching especially small groups and individu- would visit potential rehabilitation sites and als his formal teaching was limited to a couple follow up by providing detailed written recom- semesters at brigham young university BYU mendationsmendations he completed well over one hun- shortly after the 1975 establishment of INTINTss dred careful thoughtful consultations for the shrub sciences laboratory on that campus he good of the land for those who manage it and I1 established a wildlandwildwindlandland shrub biology class that for its human and other occupants he was a remains a part of the BYU curriculum in addi- mentor to others who continue on in this tradi- tion he instructed numerous workshops at the tion I1 think especially of steve monsen of our shrubsin abnb sciences labmftrylaboiatorylaboratoryLaboi atory interniountainintel mountain research station forest service US department ofot agricultitreagriculture provo utah 84606 2 GREAT BASIN naturalist volume laboratory and richard stevens of the utah of a hoe for several hours a day but then I1 diandidn t division of wildlife resources DWR in expect my boss to be in that situation either he ephraim would show up anywhere a work crew was I1 illustrate perry s teaching style with a per- ready to help with vigor and energy and he sonal example in may 1972197211 had been working expected anyone working to do the same it for INT for four months when perry took me on wasngasn t uncommon for perry to show up at these a field trip to the brown s park area of northeast- sites at 1130 am or 430 pm seemingly ern utah to evaluate the results of some earlier unaware of the impending lunch hour or quit- work he took or sent me on monthly field trips ting time those first two or three years at one stop I1 saw perry s record of accomplishment was noted a patch of green in the distance at a spring I1 by several organizations in 1965 INT recog- suspected monkey flowers wimulusmimulus sp the nized him with a certificate of merit and a sub- subject ofmy phd degree research a few years stantial cash award for outstanding performance earlier would be growing there I1 hustled over in wildlife habitat research and application of and confirmed my suspicion perry ambled up that research also in 1965 the utah wildlife and said itsit s nice to appreciate these monkey federation honored him as conservationist of flowers the way you do but look back toward the the year in 1973 the utah chapter of the soil truck what else do you see there are lots of conservation society of america gave him their other plant species and plant communities chapter recognition award he received a between here and there you can leamlearn a lot by USDA superior service award in 1969 for looking at the whole plant community he implementing and making successful the coop- laughed in his characteristic way and we dis- erative work between INT and DWR perry a cussed the various plant species present and 1949 charter member of the society for range their habitat requirements A lasting lesson to management SRM was president of the utah me it is similar to other perry teaching section and received SRM s outstanding moments shared by my colleagues achievement award 1974 the premier fred- eric G renner award 1976 and the fellow background EDUCATION WORK award 1977 he was president of the utah ETHIC AND HONORS chapter of the soil conservation society during the early 1970s arthur perry plummer fig 1 was bomborn on a farm in daniel wasatch county utah on april scientific contributions 10 1911 his mother died when he was young he and his siblings had a resourceful indepen- in this section I1 comment not only on perry s dent upbringing with their widower father he direct contributions but also on work that he was educated in the wasatch county public stimulated and inspired perry s contributions schools at east high school in salt lake city were not limited to those he personally made and at the university of utah perry received a but like those of many great teachers his BS degree 1935 in botany from the U began achievements have been enhanced and his INT career 1936 married blanche swin- expanded by those who came after and built dle of monroe 1938 and completed his MS upon the foundation lie laid degree also in botany at the U 1939 in a busy considering perry s later contributions to four years he enjoyed his university days and shrub biology it is