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FUTURESAVER OF THE WEEK ENDING 2-12-2000

Margaret D. Lowman is a botanist who is a pioneer in opening the rain forest. She helped to create techniques to reach forest canopies. She has used ropes, hot air balloons, dirigibles, cherry pickers, cranes, inflated rafts, platforms and bridges. She is Director of Research at the Marie Selby Botanical Gardens, Sarasota, Florida. She has made thousands of climbs into the rain forest canopy which was previously quite inaccessible. She and her colleagues are discovering the high secrets of living things at an ever-increasing pace. She made pioneering discoveries about the life cycles of rain forest leaves. She helped discover the cause of an epidemic dieback of Eucalyptus trees. She helped build the first elevated walkway in Australia and the first one in North America. There are now many networks of these walkways throughout the world. She organized the first two conferences on canopy research and consolidated studies on the canopy. She promotes rain-forest conservation and survival of indigenous ownership of rainforest products. For being on the cutting edge of scientific discovery in the rainforest and of rain-forest/native conservation, Margaret D. Lowman has been named Futuresaver of the Week. Click the links below for more information.

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Margaret (Selby Botanical Gardens)
Margaret (International Canopy Network)
Margaret (Scientific American)