On the Cover: The cover of this issue of Science Editor is adorned with a photo of trout lily flower. As noted by CSE President and amateur naturalist Glenn Landis in his interview in this issue, the trout-lily is “a flower that blooms above ground for 1 month, and then the rest of the year it grows into ground. It looks like a trout because the leaves are speckled, like a rainbow trout, and you can only see it before the tree canopy comes in” and obstructs the sun. In most places, the trout-lily blooms from late April through mid-May, coinciding with the CSE Annual Meeting, from which the first batch of reports for the 2024 meeting are in this issue.

Credit: Trout Lily. U.S. National Park Service (https://npgallery.nps.gov/). Public domain