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

Epiphytic lichens on a coastal ridge at the UCSB Rancho Marino Reserve

Phil Hahn sweepnets grasshoppers for our multitrophic diversity project

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

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

Savanna and oak woodland in the foothills of the central Sierra Nevada, near a study site for the California statewide survey

Teaching mushroom identification at the Opal Creek Ancient Forest Center, circa 2008

Lichens spreading happiness

Walking down the mountain after a long day surveying for rare plants in Cascade-Siskiyou National Monument, 2007

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

Word cloud based on my research paper abstracts

Fieldwork in post-fire red fir forest, Yosemite

Sagebrush steppe landscape near Burns, Oregon – one of our study sites in the 2009-2010 soil crust survey with Heather Root

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

Teaching field botany on the McCloud River circa 2009

keying plants with a view at the Rancho Marino Reserve

Epiphytic lichen community on valley oak in Moore Creek Park, Napa County–a field site for my UC Davis lichenology course

Stunted conifer forests on serpentine, Horse Mountain, Humboldt County, California. One of the many places I visited on the statewide survey.

Collecting plant community data in the White River Hills of Missouri

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

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

Quadrat view of a veg plot near the New Hogan Reservoir in the Sierra Foothills for Susan Harrison’s California statewide plant community survey, 2009

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

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

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

Oak savanna in Jackson County, Oregon, where I surveyed for rare plants in 2008

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

Fieldwork visitor

Red fir forest canopy in Yosemite

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

Guerrilla field plant ID lab during Ozarks fieldwork

Looking out at the Little Applegate Valley’s mix of veg types in southern Oregon circa 2008

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

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

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

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