An Illustrators taleCAPTURING THE REMARKABLE DETAILS OF PLANTS

摘要

Trying to retrofit development projects to meet state environmental requirements in the 1970s and '80s, Wes Jurgens worked with professors at the University of Miami, sat in on classes and "got into botany," learning from Taylor Alexander, Howard Teas and other UM experts. It was the era of heated environmental disputes over what constituted wetlands, and Jurgens, who worked for General Development Corp., sought to establish plants as the determining factors.