Look and You Will Find: A Snapshot of Biodiversity in the Lassen Foothills of California
February 15, 2022
7:00 – 8:00 PM (Via Zoom)
Andrea Craig
Dye Creek Stewardship Manager, The Nature Conservancy
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“The Lassen Foothills is a rugged, remote, and richly biodiverse landscape. The Nature Conservancy has been helping protect resources in this region since the 1980’s. Through conservation easements, owning and managing lands regionally, and working with dedicated landowners and partners we continue to preserve the flora, fauna and a way of living together. Look and You Will Find is about getting to know an elusive volcanic landscape, with over a century of grazing and development, and the diversity that has persevered. This conservation story will focus on Dye Creek Preserve and rediscovering plants documented 25 years ago, as well at least one just recently revealing itself. It is an account of floristic diversity old and new told from the relatively brief perspective of a die-hard nature lover.”
Andrea Craig was born in Vermont and grew up in Southern California –cementing a nearly insatiable appetite for exploring and conserving the natural world. After managing an outdoor shop and then working in a native plant nursery, becoming a weed-warrior and botanical technician, she finished a masters in Rangeland Resources and Wildland Soils from Cal Poly Humboldt (then Humboldt State University). She crisscrossed the continental US, traveled abroad, and spent over a year in Patagonian Chile before calling Tehama County home. Since 2006 Andrea has worked with The Nature Conservancy to steward protected places right here in our backyard.