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Field Quarter traveling in the Mojave Desert in the Big Blue Bus

Ken with TA Larry Ford
Ken and TA Larry Ford

In 1973, the late professor Ken Norris started a field-based environmental studies class called Natural History Field Quarter (NHFQ). “We’re off on the greatest adventure of our lives!” he would exclaim as they piled into a big blue bus headed toward the Mojave Desert.