Study plot among huge red firs in the Rim Fire, Yosemite National Park

Chaparral hills at the UC Davis Quail Ridge Reserve, home of several exciting lichen projects

Looking at lichens on a magnolia with students in my Jepson Herbarium workshop

The commute home after a long day surveying the Grouse Fire in Yosemite

Fieldwork in post-fire red fir forest, Yosemite

Collecting plant community data in the White River Hills of Missouri

Word cloud based on my research paper abstracts

Ozark endemic Echinacea paradoxa in Ha Ha Tonka State Park, Missouri

Field crew 2017 demonstrating rigorous commitment to daily data backup – during our survey of the Rim Fire

Phil Hahn sweepnets grasshoppers for our multitrophic diversity project

Field camp during the 2016 survey of the Long Fire near Kyburz, California

Landscape at one of the California statewide serpentine survey sites I did for Susan Harrison – one of the best jobs I’ve ever had!

Guerrilla field plant ID lab during Ozarks fieldwork

Teaching field botany on Scotch Creek, Cascade-Siskiyou National Monument

High lichen biomass and diversity in an old-growth chaparral stand, Napa Co, CA

Amanda points out pine beetle galleries in the Walker Fire – whitebark pine forest above Gibbs Lake, Mono County, CA

Teaching field botany on the McCloud River circa 2009

Lichens spreading happiness

Sketches from a student in my Jepson Herbarium lichen workshop (by Mary Ann King)

Red fir forest canopy in Yosemite

Teaching winter tree ID in the general ecology class at UW-Madison

Prickly poppies bloom the year after the Walker fire (summer 2016, Mono County, California)

keying plants with a view at the Rancho Marino Reserve

Fieldwork visitor

Angelica lineariloba with a view of the eastern Sierra in the area that burned in the 2015 Walker Fire

One of the most beautiful soil crust lichens – Acarospora schleicheri – from the 2009 central Oregon soil crust survey with Heather Root