Komarek, Ed V.

I was born into a family of early ecologists located in the plantation country around Thomasville Georgia, in the Southeastern United States. Herb Stoddard was one of the fathers of ecology, and a close friend of another father of ecology Aldo Leopold. Herb owned the plantation next door and was an early mentor and like a grandfather to me. My father also going by the name of Ed Komarek, was the first major fire ecologist and was mentored by both Herb Stoddard and by Dr. Allee while studying at the University of Chicago, before he had to quit college and go to work as a museum collector for th...