A Guide to Moist-Soil Wetland Plants of the Mississippi Alluvial Valley

Acknowledgments

ix Acknowledgments Many people contributed to the completion of this book by allowing land access and offering technical advice, including Philip Barbour, Charles Bryson, Mike Chouinard, John Englert, Gary Ervin, Wayne Gordon, Ralph Griffin, Ed Hackett, Jerry Hazelwood, Henry Heafner, Pete Heard, George Hopper, Jeanne Jones, Rick Kaminski, James Kennedy, Bruce Leopold, Lake Lewis, David Linden, Landon Loveall, Victor Maddox, Nancy McGee, Joseph McGowan , Rance Moring, Kevin Nelms, David Richardson, Rebecca Rosamond, Bo Sloan, Jacob Tuttle, Brett Werhle, Carl Wirwa, and several Wetlands Reserve Program landowners in the Mississippi Alluvial Valley. Victor Maddox provided expertise on plant identification.We thank Jeanne Jones for sharing her passion of the flora of the southeastern United States.We are extremely grateful for early reviews of the book provided by Mac H.Alford, Charles Bryson, and Norman Melvin.We also wish to extend our deepest gratitude to Rick Kaminski for all his support and guidance during our tenures at Mississippi State University. Such an ambitious project would not have been possible without his support. Bruce Leopold provided substantial support and stalwart guidance throughout the development of this book. Some plant photos in this book were collected atWetland Reserve Program sites that were being used to develop technology for the Natural Resources Conservation Service Agricultural Wildlife Conservation Center. The project, entitled: “Evaluating actively and passively managed moist-soil wetlands enrolled in the Wetland Reserve Program in the Mississippi Alluvial Valley,”was Cooperative Ecosystem Study Unit Agreement Number 68-7482-9-500. This page intentionally left blank A Guide to Moist-SoilWetland Plants of the Mississippi AlluvialValley This page intentionally left blank ...