{"id":54,"name":"Richard Wiegand","url":"","description":"Richard Wiegand has worked as an air traffic controller, a newspaper photographer, and, for the last twenty-five years, as a Regional Biologist for the Maryland Natural Heritage Program, charged with the task of locating, identifying, protecting\u00a0and documenting rare, threatened and endangered species and habitats in the state.\r\n\r\nA recognized authority on the flora of the mid-Atlantic, federal, state and local government agencies, as well as private and corporate clients, have contracted his services to provide biological resource inventories and environmental impact statements for places as disparate as the Presidential retreat at Camp David, Fort Detrick, the C&O Canal National Historical Park and the entirety of Shenandoah National Park.\r\n\r\nWiegand completed a two year photography curriculum in Miami, Florida and studied with Dr. Szell, a close student and\u00a0companion of Ansel Adams for many years.\r\n\r\nRichards' images have appeared in over fifty publications, several books and numerous illustrated reports.\r\n\r\nHe has provided thousands of stock photos to, among others, the websites and archives of the Smithsonian Institution, the Philadelphia Academy of Science, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, The Nature Conservancy, the World Wildlife Fund and multiple State Natural Heritage Programs.\r\n\r\nHis work has been exhibited throughout the mid-Atlantic region.","link":"https:\/\/www.quickreferencepublishing.com\/wholesale\/author\/richard_wiegand\/","slug":"richard_wiegand","avatar_urls":{"24":"https:\/\/www.quickreferencepublishing.com\/wholesale\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2017\/11\/Wiegand_Bio_image.jpg","48":"https:\/\/www.quickreferencepublishing.com\/wholesale\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2017\/11\/Wiegand_Bio_image.jpg","96":"https:\/\/www.quickreferencepublishing.com\/wholesale\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2017\/11\/Wiegand_Bio_image.jpg"},"meta":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.quickreferencepublishing.com\/wholesale\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/54","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.quickreferencepublishing.com\/wholesale\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users"}]}}