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at patreon.com slash indefensive plants and help keep this show up and running in the process. I hope to see you over there. But in the meantime, on with the show. Hello everyone and welcome to the Indefensive Plants podcast, the official podcast of Indefensiveplants.com. What's up? This is your host, Matt. Welcome to the show. How is everyone doing this week? I hope you brought your handlens because we are going to appreciate the world of tiny botany, specifically the bryophytes, the mosses, the hornworts, and the liverworts. These are absolutely remarkable plants that deserve far more attention than they get. And as you're going to hear, they can tell us a lot about what the environment is doing.

Joining us to talk about this is Brittany Miller, aka Brittany the Botanist, who is so dedicated to the world of Brow Fights and wants to share that love with you. It's a lot of fun talking

with her, so I don't want to keep you from it any longer. Let's just jump right into it.

Without further ado, here's my conversation with Brittany Miller. I hope you enjoy.

All right, Brittany Miller. Welcome to the podcast. It is so great to have you here. Let's start off with an introduction. Tell everyone a little bit about who you are and what it is you do.

My goodness, yes. Hi, I'm Brittany Miller or Brittany the botanist. What I do is study moss. I am a moss lover, passionate about moss. And more specifically, currently, I work with a consulting

company studying wetlands and long term, we do long term monitoring of wetlands and impacts to the

wetlands, particularly the mosses and the vegetation that comprise those wetlands in northern

Alberta where there's a lot of oil and

gas exploration. Oh, wow. So very important time to be looking at these sorts of things. And

it's really charming to know that someone is in your role, but also someone like you also cares

about the moss. Because if you think like sedges and grasses often get kind of breezed over and sort of species surveys and stuff, you start talking about mosses and liverworts.

Yeah, definitely.

That's one of the big hurdles of my industry is not how many people know the mosses because they are so taxonomically difficult.

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