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Acknowledgments

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Produce in the market at Cuicatlán, Oaxaca, México. Photograph by Leslie Main Johnson.

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13 Mile Lake with fringe of Labrador tea, dwarf birch, and sphagnum moss. Campbell Highway north of Watson Lake, Yukon. Photograph by Leslie Main Johnson. [Research funded by Social Science and Humanities Research Council of Canada, standard research grant; and Canadian Circumpolar Institute, boreal area research grant].

Credits

Course Professor and Author: Leslie Main Johnson, PhD

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