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1971
 Mary Bowerman (1908-2005) and Art Bonwell co-founded the Save Mount Diablo group and were instrumental in expanding the boundaries of the northern California Mount Diablo state park from 6,788 acres to over 20,000 acres in 2006. In 1944 Bowerman published her doctoral thesis: “Flowering Plants and Ferns of Mount Diablo.”
Links: Environment, SF Bay Area, Horticulture, Botany, Mountain     Click to see the source(s) for this event 
 
1998
 In France Eric Baratay and Elisabeth Hardouin-Fugier authored "Zoo: A History of Zoological Gardens in the West." An English translation by Oliver Welsh was published in 2002.
Links: Books, Horticulture     Click to see the source(s) for this event 
 
1999 Oct
 The plum pox virus made its first appearance in North America in Pennsylvania orchards.
Links: USA, Pennsylvania, Horticulture     Click to see the source(s) for this event 
 
2002 Sep 4
 In California it was reported that the Phytophthora ramorum microbe, responsible for sudden oak death, had infected the coastal redwood saplings.
Links: California, Microbiology, Horticulture     Click to see the source(s) for this event 
 
2005 Feb 28
 In Britain the Duchess of Northumberland opened her new Poison Garden, dedicated to the world’s most venomous and hallucinogenic plants. It was a part of Alnwick Garden opened in 2002.
Links: Britain, Horticulture     Click to see the source(s) for this event 
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