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Mary DeDecker
Mary Caroline Foster DeDecker (3 October 1909 – 5 September 2000) was an American botanist, conservationist, environmentalist and founder of the Bristlecone Chapter of the California Native Plant Society. She discovered six new plants, three of which, including Dedeckera eurekensis, are named in her honor. Dedeckera Canyon, south of Eureka Dunes, is also named after her.
Mary Caroline Foster was born 3 October 1909 in Texas County, Oklahoma Barden P. O., later RFD Guymon, in a family of Charles Morrison Foster and Phoebe Arabella Thompson. Her father was a farmer and an office manager for Los Angeles DWP. She studied at Van Nuys High School in the San Fernando Valley and after that completed one year at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA).
She lived in Zelzah, now Northridge, until she married Paul DeDecker in 1929. The couple moved to North Hollywood where their daughters were born in 1932 and 1933. In 1935 the DeDeckers moved to Independence, Inyo County, California.
In the 1930s and 1940s she started becoming familiar with the natural history of the Eastern Sierra, during numerous extended camping trips with her family. In 2017 her daughters published a book, Sage & Sierra, in reminiscence of those times. The daughters had left the Eastern Sierra upon graduation from high school.
Mary DeDecker died on 5 September 2000 in Independence at the age of 90 and is buried at Independence Cemetery, Inyo County, California.
In Independence DeDecker met a naturalist Mark Kerr who made an exhibit of the plants and their uses by the Paiute Indians, as well as mounting and labeling many local plants. He taught DeDecker what some of the plants were. He advised him to send unknown specimens to Dr. Philip Munz at Rancho Santa Ana Botanic Garden in Claremont and John Thomas Howell at the California Academy of Sciences in San Francisco. DeDecker started sending plants to them in early 1950s. In 1954 DeDecker started collecting her herbarium that included over 6,000 specimens. She became the pre-eminent plant expert in the northern Mojave Desert and Eastern Sierra Nevada areas.
In 1966 she published a book called Mines of the Eastern Sierra.
After 1967 she focused on plant work and did not search for any other job. She was hired or given contracts for many consulting jobs, largely to fulfill the requirements of the California Environmental Quality Act.
Mary DeDecker
Mary Caroline Foster DeDecker (3 October 1909 – 5 September 2000) was an American botanist, conservationist, environmentalist and founder of the Bristlecone Chapter of the California Native Plant Society. She discovered six new plants, three of which, including Dedeckera eurekensis, are named in her honor. Dedeckera Canyon, south of Eureka Dunes, is also named after her.
Mary Caroline Foster was born 3 October 1909 in Texas County, Oklahoma Barden P. O., later RFD Guymon, in a family of Charles Morrison Foster and Phoebe Arabella Thompson. Her father was a farmer and an office manager for Los Angeles DWP. She studied at Van Nuys High School in the San Fernando Valley and after that completed one year at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA).
She lived in Zelzah, now Northridge, until she married Paul DeDecker in 1929. The couple moved to North Hollywood where their daughters were born in 1932 and 1933. In 1935 the DeDeckers moved to Independence, Inyo County, California.
In the 1930s and 1940s she started becoming familiar with the natural history of the Eastern Sierra, during numerous extended camping trips with her family. In 2017 her daughters published a book, Sage & Sierra, in reminiscence of those times. The daughters had left the Eastern Sierra upon graduation from high school.
Mary DeDecker died on 5 September 2000 in Independence at the age of 90 and is buried at Independence Cemetery, Inyo County, California.
In Independence DeDecker met a naturalist Mark Kerr who made an exhibit of the plants and their uses by the Paiute Indians, as well as mounting and labeling many local plants. He taught DeDecker what some of the plants were. He advised him to send unknown specimens to Dr. Philip Munz at Rancho Santa Ana Botanic Garden in Claremont and John Thomas Howell at the California Academy of Sciences in San Francisco. DeDecker started sending plants to them in early 1950s. In 1954 DeDecker started collecting her herbarium that included over 6,000 specimens. She became the pre-eminent plant expert in the northern Mojave Desert and Eastern Sierra Nevada areas.
In 1966 she published a book called Mines of the Eastern Sierra.
After 1967 she focused on plant work and did not search for any other job. She was hired or given contracts for many consulting jobs, largely to fulfill the requirements of the California Environmental Quality Act.