Fly fishing my home waters: The Fall, Crooked, Metolius, and the mighty Deschutes River that is my front yard.

Birding and hiking the High Desert and the entire Cascades for wild flowers to study.

My graduate and undergraduate work in Botany and Plant/Soil Science, and working toward a degree in entomology.

I am fortunate to work in my field with the USFS on the Deschutes National Forest. A place I work, teach, live, play and volunteer . I believe my career calling is to follow the Land Ethics of Aldo Leopold. Conservation Education, land health and ecological conscientiousness.