Remembering Fern Specialist and Botanist Warren “Herb” Wagner, Jr.
"Deer in the winter are nature's closest thing to actual zombies."
January 8, 2000
Today is the anniversary of the death of a leading botanist in the study of ferns, Warren “Herb” Wagner, Jr.
Herb was the founder of modern systematics for plants and animals. Biologists still use "Wagner trees” to classify plants and animals based on presumed phylogenetic relationships and evolutionary history.
Herb Wagner once said,
Deer in the winter are nature's closest thing to actual zombies.
They chew everything in their path.
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Deer in Winter
Warren Herb Wagner, Jr
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