The Vascular Plants of the Bruce Peninsula is the remarkable life’s work of Joe Johnson, professional biologist and nature lover. While Joe Johnson was raised and educated as a biologist in Nova Scotia, he spent the majority of his working life in Wiarton, Ontario. For more than 40 years he travelled the breadth of the area both on a professional basis as a contract biologist, and as an observer of one of Canada’s richest plant areas. While the Bruce Peninsula has achieved m