Ray Collett Lecture Series: Julie Evens, California's Botanical Landscapes.

Julie will discuss her roots at UC Santa Cruz from being an intern at the Arboretum, experiencing the natural history field quarter, to collecting and drawing desert plants. Since then, she's fortunate to work with many CNPS scientists to develop methods for sampling and mapping vegetation patterns and for describing them in A Manual of California Vegetation. This collective knowledge base of documenting the myriad vegetation types across California's majestic landscapes -- including the Mojave Desert and south coastal California, to the Sierra Nevada and its foothills, to the Central Valley and Bay Area -- helps their continued protection and management. She will showcase this richness, which culminated in a recent publication of California's Botanical Landscapes.

Julie Evens is the Vegetation Program Director for the California Native Plant Society (CNPS). She and her team maintain standard methods for surveying, classifying, and mapping vegetation in California. Julie provides public workshops on these vegetation methods, archives and analyzes vegetation data, and works collaboratively with agencies and CNPS chapters on vegetation mapping projects across the State. Julie is co-author of the second edition of A Manual of California Vegetation. Julie has a M.A. degree from Humboldt State University, and she holds two B.A. degrees from the University of California, Santa Cruz, in Biology and Environmental Studies. She previously worked for federal and state agencies including the National Park Service, US Geological Survey, University of California, and Department of Fish & Wildlife.

Free community event, donations welcome, and free parking.