Dr. A. Michael Powell

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  www.neilsperry.com/articles/2008/08/26/wild-about-texas - [Cached Version]
  Published on: 1/1/2008    Last Visited: 9/17/2008  

  According to A. Michael Powell of Sul Ross University in Alpine, author of The Cacti of the Trans-Pecos and Adjacent Regions (2004), there are 132 species and subspecies of cacti in Texas, growing in habitats ranging from deserts, where they are most abundant, to forests, mountains, and grasslands as well.

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  www.tpwmagazine.com/archive/2007/may/legend/ - [Cached Version]
  Published on: 5/1/2007    Last Visited: 5/27/2007  

  Most botanists, including A. Michael Powell, professor emeritus of biology at Sul Ross State University in Alpine, now classify P. remota as a distinct species."Pinus remota is one of my favorite trees," says Powell, author of Trees and Shrubs of the Trans-Pecos and Adjacent Areas."I've camped and walked among Texas piñons for a long time.It's nice to find a little pine forest in remote areas on limestone slopes."
  
  Powell, who has grown Pinus remota from seed to maturity, notes that Texas piñons have a broad, rounded crown rather than a conical crown like the Mexican piñon.

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  A. Michael Powell - [Cached Version]
  Published on: 5/1/2006    Last Visited: 3/1/2008  

  Dr. A. Michael Powell, a highly respected scientist, is a Professor of Biology and Herbarium Director-Curator at Sul Ross State University in Alpine, Texas.For more than thirty-five years, he has actively studied and contributed to the knowledge of Trans-Pecos native plants.His meticulous research is reflected in numerous articles in scientific journals.Dr. Powell has also written Trees and Shrubs of Trans-Pecos Texas.

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  Abilene Reporter News: Business - [Cached Version]
  Published on: 3/16/2003    Last Visited: 3/17/2003  

  Ranchers have long been harvesting the plants, which are believed to compete with grass and other livestock forage, said A. Michael Powell, professor of Biology at Sul Ross State University in Alpine.However, he agrees with Contreras that most of the damage in West Texas occurs on public land.
  
  Powell supports recommendations in the report that encourage West Texas landowners to cultivate the plants commercially, which also would create jobs.
  
  "All can be grown from seeds or cuttings and they can be propagated by the thousands," Powell said."They grow faster than people think."
  
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  Powell said the plants are part of an ecosystem that has existed in relative stability for centuries.
  
  Their roots stabilize the shifting soil.Animals eat their fruit and take shelter in their protective thorns.Their loss affects an entire chain of life on a landscape that can be hostile and unforgiving.
  
  But the plants with pretty yellow and red flowers that bloom with so little moisture are rapidly being transplanted into the Southwest's urban areas.

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  Alpine Avalanche - [Cached Version]
  Published on: 11/12/2004    Last Visited: 11/12/2004  

  Cacti of the Trans-Pecos and Adjacent Areas, 20 years in the writing by A. Michael Powell, Ph.D., and James Weedin, Ph.D., will debut Saturday, Nov. 13, from 5:30 to 7:30 p.m. at Front Street Books, 121 E. Holland.
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  Powell recently retired from active teaching at Sul Ross, where he taught botany for almost 30 years.He is Professor Emeritus and Director and Curator of the A. Michael Powell Herbarium and continues botanical research.
  
  Powell is the author of numerous scientific articles, and wrote Trees and Shrubs of the Trans-Pecos (UT Press 1998), Grasses of the Trans-Pecos (Iron Mountain Press 2000), and coauthored with Sharon C. Yarborough Ferns and Fern Allies of the Trans-Pecos (TTUP 2002).
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  "Dr. Powell has many friends and former students in the area, and I know they will want to come out to congratulate him on this crowning achievement," said Hardy.

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  Arizona drains Texas cactus - [Cached Version]
  Published on: 1/21/2003    Last Visited: 1/21/2003  

  "The ocotillo and yucca are packed into cattle trucks and hauled off," said Mike Powell, a biology professor at Sul Ross State University in Alpine, adding that the area around Terlingua and Big Bend National Park has been hit particularly hard.

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  Biographical Sketch - [Cached Version]
  Published on: 2/20/2006    Last Visited: 4/23/2008  

  In the summer of 1979, John moved from British Columbia to Texas at the invitation of Mike Powell to join his biology staff at Sul Ross State University, and to establish a phytochemical laboratory at "Old Sully."

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  Books Published - [Cached Version]
  Published on: 5/1/2006    Last Visited: 3/1/2008  

  by A. Michael Powell
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  Grasses was written by Dr. Michael Powell, a biology professor at Sul Ross State University in Alpine, Texas.

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  Destination Unknown: Search Results - [Cached Version]
  Published on: 11/7/2000    Last Visited: 2/14/2001  

  A. Michael Powell, Ph.D Professor of Biology
  
  Dr. Powell has been a professor of biology at Sul Ross State University since 1968, and has served as Chairperson of the Biology Department since 1978.His major field of study is Plant Systematics and he is the world's leading expert on the plantlife of t... (more).

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  El Paso Times - Historic rainfall: Bevy of water... - [Cached Version]
  Published on: 9/29/2006    Last Visited: 9/29/2006  

  In Alpine, A. Michael Powell, a retired professor and director of the herbarium collections at Sul Ross State University, hasn't seen anything unusual in the mountains and surrounding desert.
  
  "The vegetation is very nice because what rain there has been this year came late," he said.

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