About I only have a Bachelor's degree (1974 Michigan State University, zoology), but through the decades I adopted mentors as I embarked on a science writing career. The late Lynn Margulis edited a paper I was first-author of in the journal Biosystems in 1990; she also took my first book manuscript directly to the editor of MIT Press for me. (Four books on evolution and ecology were then published in the 1990s: MIT Press, Springer-Verlag, and Basic Books.) Owing to my 3rd book, "Green Space, Green Time: The Way of Science," which included a section on then-emeritus professor University of AZ Tucson, Paul S. Martin, Paul teamed up with me following my 4th (and last book) to co-author the essay, "Bring Torreya taxifolia North — Now" (2004, Wild Earth). It was my last book, "The Ghosts of Evolution: Nonsensical Fruit, Missing Partners, and Other Ecological Anachronisms" that launched me in the advocacy for assisting the migration northward of  the listed plant, Florida torreya (an indisputable glacial relict). During that time, I adopted a retired USDA forestry research scientist, Gerald Rehfeldt, for helping shape my understanding of the academic forestry journal articles on assisted migration. Such papers far exceeded the level of exploration and implementation that would follow in conservation biology pertaining to rare plants. Several peer-reviewed papers of mine and one book chapter are on my Researchgate page, along with a number of "experiment findings" and "technical reports" of Torreya Guardians planting results and discoveries. These latter are usually snapshots of text- and photo-rich webpages put into pdf (so that they become citable for ESA recovery plan updates) despite their continuous expansion and corrections within the Torreya Guardians website. My "Ghosts of Evolution" 2001 book was cited in a paper published in the journal Nature.