How to pronounce “schulte” in English

Schultes is widely regarded as the founding father of ethnobotany for his collection and writing up

And Schultes worked for 40 years with his Colombian colleagues to have this established as a national park.

Richard Evans Schultes.

This is Schultes in a picture from our storybook map-- working in the Sibundoy Valley-- which Brian has mapped--

This is Schultes in Chiribiquete National Park, which wasn't a national park when he first came in there in the '40s.

This is Schultes seated near the Cerro de Campana-- the bell mountain.

But of course, as Schultes was always quick to point out, ethnobotanists don't really discover anything.

So as I said, Schultes, with his Colombian colleagues, set it up as a national park-- that's the green core area-- in the mid '80s.

So he studied at Harvard under Richard Evans Schultes, and went on to study at Yale, and finished his Ph.D.

So I want to finish this morning with the tales of my mentor Richard Schultes, that I mentioned earlier.

Now, as an aside, we told the story of the great Harvard ethnobotanist botanist Richard Schultes in this storybook map.