Us botanist (1930–2014), earliest known publisher of an estimate of pando’s mass.
Burton 'Burt' Verne Barnes (1930 – 2014) was a botanist known best for his forestry instruction at the University of Michigan. Barnes authored and coauthored many influential books, with the most prominent being Michigan Trees, a field guide completed in collaboration with Warren H. Wagner. Much of his work focused on the Northern areas of the Lower Peninsula of Michigan and the Kirtland's warbler. Barnes is also well-known for being the first scientist to recognize the largest known individual tree, the Populus tremuloides colony known as "Pando".