I've been quite busy within my field, both with personal pursuits and professional ones.
First and most obviously, I started teaching with the University last year.
A little more interestingly, last spring I bought a fairly large tract of land due east of the Okefenokee swamp that I'm organizing into a private land preserve. It's got all kinds of cool stuff present, carnivorous plants, orchids, leucistic squirrels, etc. I have also been engaging in a private little endeavor to locate and catalog various carnivorous plant sites in my part of the country. I'm also working with the North American Sarracenia Conservancy as a member-at-large.
As an extension of that, my peers have been pressuring me to attempt to expand my endeavors to find and protect rare flora from the Southeast into something a little more productive, so I'm currently in the very early stages of setting up a 510c3 non profit to gain legal access to easements in mitigation areas to manage them appropriately to preserve our rare and highly endangered ecosystems.
Ya know, just the typical weekend activities for most country boys in the dirty south. Nothing too special.
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