The centr al interior coast range in San Benito and Fresno Counties includes many fas cinating and unusual plant communities, including those found on Monocline Ridge, Panoche and Tumey Hills, Griswold Hills, Clear Creek, and Pinnacles National Park. Amelia Ryan, most recently an ecologist with Point Reyes Nat ional Seashore, will share her stunning photographs of these areas and talk about their unique flora. Amelia will then briefly touch on some of the pr ojects she’ll be working on at her new position in Pinnacles National Park.
Amelia Ryan is a Vegetation Ecologist at Pinnacles National Park. She has been with the National Park Service since 2003. Amelia became inter ested in plants as a child growing up in rural Sonoma County, and earned a B.S. in Plant Biology plus an M.S. in Ecology and Systematic Biology. A member of CNPS since 2004, she has served on the Marin Chapter board since 2010. Desp ite only recently moving south of the Bay, Amelia has a deep appreciation o f the interior coast range, which she has spent considerable time exploring the over the years.