Post by L Roebuck on Apr 8, 2007 10:07:30 GMT -5
It's a bug's life for cave biologist
Water gurgled along his shady gravel drive. Of course Jerry Lewis had to stop, to kneel and to flip a rock or two.
He found bugs, all right, bugs that look like every other bug and a crustacean that did not. Lewis spotted something special and soon confirmed something unique. "The only place it's known is there," Lewis said.
Believe him. The Nature Conservancy does; same with Uncle Sam and state governments, among others. When they need a feel for life in caves, they need the impeccable reputation and insatiable curiosity of Lewis.
Lewis goes here and there, deep and deeper among bats and mud in spaces where few men have ventured. Lewis takes deliberate stock, makes reasoned recommendations used to protect land, to route highways and water mains.
"To have a resource like him in our region, we're very lucky," said Cloyce Hedge of Indiana's Department of Natural Resources.
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Water gurgled along his shady gravel drive. Of course Jerry Lewis had to stop, to kneel and to flip a rock or two.
He found bugs, all right, bugs that look like every other bug and a crustacean that did not. Lewis spotted something special and soon confirmed something unique. "The only place it's known is there," Lewis said.
Believe him. The Nature Conservancy does; same with Uncle Sam and state governments, among others. When they need a feel for life in caves, they need the impeccable reputation and insatiable curiosity of Lewis.
Lewis goes here and there, deep and deeper among bats and mud in spaces where few men have ventured. Lewis takes deliberate stock, makes reasoned recommendations used to protect land, to route highways and water mains.
"To have a resource like him in our region, we're very lucky," said Cloyce Hedge of Indiana's Department of Natural Resources.
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