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Dedication to Detail: Preserving the Art of Collection, Cataloging, and Observation 

Bennington College Professor looks through recently acquired herbarium.

Small herbaria play a critical but often overlooked role in climate change research, biodiversity conservation, and natural history education. Through the digitization of a historic Vermont herbarium collection, students at Bennington College are preserving valuable botanical records while contributing to a growing network of scientific data used by researchers across North America.