Bloom Where You Are Planted

A Presentation by Linnea Hanson
September 23, 2020 at 7:00 pm

Link to the Presentation

Announcing an upcoming talk by Linnea Hanson, Northern California Botanists and Friends of the Chico State Herbarium board member.

Linnea will be speaking through a Zoom presentation on September 23, 2020 at 7:00 pm by the Gateway Science Museum. The talk will be prerecorded and Linnea will be available for Questions and Answers after the talk. Follow this link to the Museum Without Walls talk: https://www.csuchico.edu/gateway/education/for-lifelong-learners/mwow.shtml

Linnea will talk about how she became interested in plants and the work that she did as a botanist on the Plumas National Forest. She plans to talk about observations she has seen on the effects of climate change on wildflowers in our area. Linnea will describe her involvement with Northern California Botanists and Friends of the Chico State Herbarium. She would like to introduce the audiences to some of the rare plants on the Plumas National Forest and some of her favorites.

Linnea Hanson was hired as a botanist for the Plumas National Forest in 1979 and retired in 2011. In 1991 Linnea received the first National Botanist award and traveled to Washington DC to accept the award from the Chief of the Forest Service. In 2008, she received the first Agency Person of the Year Award from the California Native Plant Society. She is President of Northern California Botanists and a founding board member (2006), and is a board member of the Friends of the Chico State Herbarium, where she was also a founding board member (1995).