Since 1928
Biology professor John C. Johnson, PhD, first visited the abandoned mining town of Gothic in July 1919 and soon began bringing students to study amid its ruins. Since RMBL was founded in 1928, thousands of scientists and students have followed, making the ecosystems around Gothic some of the most intensively studied in the world.
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