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Nelson was born at Sugar Creek, in Lee County, Iowa to parents Christen Nelson and Anne (Evenson) Nelson, who had immigrated from Norway.
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Excerpt from The Red Desert of Wyoming: And Its Forage Resources Sir: I have the honor to transmit herewith and recommend for publication as Bulletin No. 13 of this Division a report by Prof. Aven Nelson on The Red Desert of Wyoming and its Forage Resources, prepared in accordance with the instructions of the Agrostologist. The Red Desert region of Wyoming is a waterless and nearly treeless area. During the summer season it is practically uninhabitable, and a visitor at this time would doubt very much whether the region could be utilized in any way, especially as a stock range, but as a matter of fact this Red Desert actually affords excellent winter pasturage. Here are fed the herds and flocks of adjacent summer ranges, and many of the stockmen in northwestern Colorado, eastern Utah, and southern Idaho find in this region a desirable place to winter their stock, especially their sheep. So far as I am aware, we have in this report the first presentation of the value of the Red Desert and other similar regions which occur in the interior of all large continents as ranges for stock, and the account given of the various forage plants upon which thousands of cattle and sheep graze during the winter months can not fail to be of interest. Among these plants which afford nutritious food and apparently thrive in the driest climates and in strongly alkaline soil there are doubtless varieties that are well deserving of propagation, and by their cultivation land now totally waste may be rendered valuable. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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Nelson was born at Sugar Creek, in Lee County, Iowa to parents Christen Nelson and Anne (Evenson) Nelson, who had immigrated from Norway.
He attended Kirksville State Normal School in Kirksville, Missouri from which he was graduated in 1883 with his Bachelor of Arts degree, while in 1887 he received the M. South. Doctorate. degree. He further continued his education in Drury College at Springfield, Missouri, which conferred upon him a Master of Science degree in 1890.
He was one of the founding professors of the University of Wyoming, where he taught for 55 years as professor and served as president (1918-1922). He served as president of the American Society of Plant Taxonomists and Botanical Society of America. Aven was the youngest of four children in a Quaker family.
He next entered Harvard University was awarded the Master of Arts degree in 1892.
In 1893, he co-founded the Rocky Mountain Herbarium. He came to the University of Wyoming in 1887.
In 1901, he was made fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science. In 1904, the University of Denver conferred upon him the degree of Doctor of Philosophy.In 1917, Nelson was named acting president, then president (1918) of the University of Wyoming, a position he held until 1922.
In 1934, he was elected president of the Botanical Society of America.
In 1927, he co-founded the Colorado-Wyoming Academy of Science. In 1935, he became president of the American Society of Plant Taxonomists.
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