Mary Klee Oral History Transcript

Mary Klee talks about her early education in college where she wanted to be a veterinarian and then decided to change her major to biology. From there she moved to St. Petersburg, Florida where she applied to a job at the National Wetlands Inventory as a biological technician. She then worked in the Smithsonian’s Natural History Museum in their Herbarium creating a list of Wetland Bryophytes in conjunction with the National Wetlands Inventory. She moved to the Headquarters of Ecological Services in Ballston, first as a secretary and then later into a biologist position. She continued to work closely with Bill Wilen where she co-authored a NWI paper and then presented it. She was a valuable asset to the NWI program.