My dream is to help many more people realize a positive role with Nature by giving to, not just taking from, Earth. I hope to become closer to a broadening community seeking to be indigenous to the places they live, so that those places thrive with vibrant natural and human communities.
My adult life has been spent understanding and supporting agroecology and natural systems ecology and conservation along California’s central coast through labor, research, teaching, group facilitation, leading collaborative natural resource management projects, and activism.
I learn and write about what I learn. And so, I explored the federal and state endangered species listing process through successful petitions for listing the Ohlone tiger beetle (Cicindela ohlone) and Scotts Valley knotweed (Polygonum hickmanii) as endangered. And, I have bridged the ecological science into political realms to increase restoration and management of threatened habitat types including coastal prairie, coastal scrub, riparian systems, and maritime chaparral. This has allowed me to co-author management plans for protected natural areas and to publish work in scientific and popular journals. My peer-reviewed publications have been about restoration ecology in coastal prairie and arid riparian ecosystems as well as invasion biology in redwood ecosystems.
My occupations have included land stewardship with UC Natural Reserves, large-scale monitoring and strategic planning with The Nature Conservancy, professional education with the Elkhorn Slough National Estuarine Research Reserve, and teaching undergraduates at UC Santa Cruz. For a while, I advised the Sierra Club and am now an active advisor to the California Native Plant Society. In 1999, I was honored to be recognized as a Fellow by the Robert and Patricia Switzer Foundation.
If you are looking for help with group facilitation, leading collaborative natural resource management, or advice on conservation lands management, please reach out!
Grey Hayes 
do you speak to smaller groups? i would be very interested in inviting you to speak in boulder creek to residents rebuilding from the czu fire. your ideas about reindigenation could be of great assistance.
i look forward to hearing from you 🙂
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Hi Kim- yes, I would enjoy the opportunity to speak to residents of Boulder Creek- thanks for the thought! I am out of town on vacation through the month of March and in and out of internet range (mostly out). Let me know if sometime after the first week of April might work and what days/times you might consider. Grey
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Hi Grey! Good to run into you again.
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Hi Grey,
My name is Moss Phipps, I am a second year Plant Science major at UCSC. I currently work as a student curator focusing on the Randall Morgan Archive. Through my work I have sorted through plenty of surveys, personal works and dissertations that randy has helped with or was interested in. Recently I have been sorting through a box and stumbled upon your dissertation on cattle grazing effects on coastal prairies. I have read through a lot of Randalls work and see an incredible similarity between both of your ideas on prairie conservation. Since starting this job It has been clear that the death of Randy was a loss of an incredible resource and pillar in the science community. It has been incredibly inspiring to read both of your works and I would love to connect to someone who shared ideas with randy. I don’t want to overstep and hope this message finds you well. I would love to hear from you.
maphipps@ucsc.edu
Best,
Moss Phipps
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