I finished a PhD at UNL and moved back to eastern WA with Tom where I had a small contract surveying for rare plants for an agency that shared offices with a US Forest Service research lab, and in 1990 I landed a post-doc to conduct rare plant research with the USFS. Jack and I collaborated on rare and common grasses, and I worked with others on additional rare species, some likely to be impacted by climate change, but my post-doc ended as Tom started a master's program at Central WA Univ., so we moved to Ellensburg.