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O.A. Stevens
More than one generation of native plant enthusiasts have
relied on the work of the botanist O.A. Stevens to guide them in the field. Stevens was a professor who began his 67-year-career at the North Dakota
Agricultural College (later North Dakota State University) in 1909 and later wrote "The Handbook of North Dakota Plants", which remained a standard guide for many years. While this text may be his most lasting contribution, Stevens also wrote extensively about birds, bees, and wasps and trained generations of field biologists. His monthly botanical columns apeared monthly, from the years 1960 to 1971, in the journal "North Dakota Horticulture", and he was a regular contributor to Dakota Farmer. His commentaries on native plants and birds also appeared on the campus radio station. Stevens was dedicated to meticulous field work, and each summer collected an average of 800 plant samples in North Dakota. In his lengthy career as a scholar of North Dakota natural history, he collected 12,000 bees and wasps; and received the Pioneer Historian Award from the Red River Historical Society and an honorary Doctor of Science degree from the University of North Dakota in Grand Forks. Several insect species, including prosopis stevensi and dasymntilla stevensi, were named after him. Stevens died in 1980 at the age of 94.
To learn more about O.A. Stevens, visit the website of the University Archives at North Dakota State University.
relied on the work of the botanist O.A. Stevens to guide them in the field. Stevens was a professor who began his 67-year-career at the North Dakota
Agricultural College (later North Dakota State University) in 1909 and later wrote "The Handbook of North Dakota Plants", which remained a standard guide for many years. While this text may be his most lasting contribution, Stevens also wrote extensively about birds, bees, and wasps and trained generations of field biologists. His monthly botanical columns apeared monthly, from the years 1960 to 1971, in the journal "North Dakota Horticulture", and he was a regular contributor to Dakota Farmer. His commentaries on native plants and birds also appeared on the campus radio station. Stevens was dedicated to meticulous field work, and each summer collected an average of 800 plant samples in North Dakota. In his lengthy career as a scholar of North Dakota natural history, he collected 12,000 bees and wasps; and received the Pioneer Historian Award from the Red River Historical Society and an honorary Doctor of Science degree from the University of North Dakota in Grand Forks. Several insect species, including prosopis stevensi and dasymntilla stevensi, were named after him. Stevens died in 1980 at the age of 94.
To learn more about O.A. Stevens, visit the website of the University Archives at North Dakota State University.
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