Quest Completed - The Final Four
How can a dream be realized? If a dream is seen as a perfectly created material state, it is inevitably doomed to failure. Only when it is a striving toward an attainable goal can it be achieved. Reflections from North Country by Sigurd F. Olson L Y N X, O H I O # 97 – Entomologic Emma Lucy Braun has turned me into an entomologist. A century ago, Emma became fascinated with an area in southern Ohio where the Appalachians meet the plains of the Midwest. It’s an overlap of biological diversity, and Emma, who received a PhD in botany and geology from the University of Cincinnati, found this area to be a research haven. Of special interest were the small prairies in the foothills where wildflowers, butterflies, and other insects flourished. In her later years, she was instrumental in preserving a particular prairie in Lynx, Ohio. The Lynx Prairie became the genesis for what has now morphed into the 20,000-acre The Edge of Appalachia Preserve owned by The Nature Conserv