
Gregory Aplet
Forest Ecologist
Non Forest Service

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My favorite science experience was studying vegetation development on lava flows in Hawai’i. It was fascinating to see how plants get started on bare rock, but the coolest thing was just to stand among the tree ferns and rare native birds in fully developed rainforest on thousand-year-old lava.
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