Speaker

Book Talks

  • California Trees — Exploring the remarkable diversity, ecology, and stories of California’s native trees
  • The Klamath Mountains: A Natural History — Biodiversity, geology, and evolution in one of North America’s great mountain landscapes
  • Conifer Country — A natural history and hiking journey through the extraordinary conifer diversity of the Klamath Mountains
  • Conifers of the Pacific Slope — The conifers of California, Oregon, and Washington and the landscapes they inhabit
  • Field Guide to Manzanitas — Evolution, diversity, and the story of the California Floristic Province
  • California Desert Plants — Exploring the remarkable plants and landscapes of California’s deserts

Conifers & Forest Ecology

  • Conifers of the Klamath Mountains — Why this rugged corner of northwestern California and southwestern Oregon supports one of the richest temperate conifer floras on Earth
  • The Miracle Mile — A journey through an extraordinary concentration of conifer diversity in the Klamath Mountains
  • Conifer Biogeography — How climate, geology, evolution, and time have shaped the distribution of conifers, with an emphasis on Pinus
  • Conifers of the Pacific Slope — Exploring conifer diversity from California to the Pacific Northwest
  • Conifers of the San Gabriel Mountains — Forests, fire, drought, and remarkable conifer diversity in Southern California
  • High-Elevation Five-Needle Pines — Whitebark, foxtail, bristlecone, limber, sugar, and western white pines across western mountain landscapes
  • Bigcone Douglas-fir — The ecology, evolution, and fire adaptations of one of California’s most distinctive conifers

Place, Trails & Storytelling

  • The Bigfoot Trail: A Botanical Wonderland — A 360-mile journey through the Klamath Mountains and one of the most botanically diverse temperate landscapes in North America
  • Storytelling and Science — Using stories, field observation, and natural history to connect people with the landscapes around them