On Saturday, January 25th at 7 pm, the Friends of San Pedro Valley Park welcome Tanya Baxter, botanist and ecologist, for a presentation entitled, “Flora of the northern Sierra Nevada: Botanical Encounters off the Beaten Path.”  On over 1,146,000 acres, Plumas National Forest hosts some of the most diverse habitat in the northern Sierra Nevada range.  Since 2023, Tanya Baxter and crews of consultant botanists have been documenting remote, rugged and often unvisited portions of the national forest around the area of Quincy for a fuels reduction mitigation inventory. Numerous new rare plant populations were documented during these botanical surveys. Over the last few years, several large fires have ravished the yellow pine forests and drastically impacted the ecology of Plumas National Forest, as well as the timber harvest there.  Tanya’s talk will cover plant communities, botanical highlights, scenic sections of the Feather River, and the unexpected field encounters. Join us for an illuminating lecture.

About the speaker: Tanya Baxter, M.S. is a botanist and ecologist. Tanya conducts rare plant surveys in remote rugged areas. She has roots in fire science and has served as a natural resource advisor on wildland fires in Yosemite National Park. Tanya specializes in riparian habitats, coastal fire fuels reductions, native plant revegetation design, and northern Sierra Nevada flora. She teaches a field course on plant taxonomy at San Francisco State University each June that is open to the public.

Please register in advance for this webinar using the following link:

https://us06web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_KROlb3FtRbiG7yV2OsOLuw

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