Paul Austin Johnsgard died May 28, 2021, in Lincoln, NE. He was born June 28, 1931, in Fargo, N.D., the son of Alfred Bernard and Yvonne Marguerite Johnsgard (née Morgan). He grew up learning the prairie plants of his grandparents' farm in North Dakota near Christine, and roaming the woods of the Red River valley. After graduating from Wahpeton high school, and completing two years of junior college in Wahpeton, he transferred to the N.D. Agricultural College (now N.D.S.U.) in Fargo to complete majors in zoology and botany (B.S., 1953). In 1955 he completed a M.S. degree from Washington State College (now W.S.U.) based on his research on wetland ecology in central Washington, and that same year married Lois Miriam Lampe of Dubuque, Iowa.
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