Members Only: Behind The Scenes at the Pritzlaff Conservation Center with Garden Executive Director Steve Windhager Ph.D.

Description:

Join us for a member exclusive opportunity to meet Executive Director, Steve Windhager, Ph.D., and go behind-the-scenes at the Garden’s Pritzlaff Conservation Center. This tour features a look at our seed bank, our extensive herbarium collection, and includes special interactions with our scientists at work in the labs.  Don’t miss out on this exclusive insight into the Garden’s conservation efforts!

Pricing:

This tour is free to Garden members. Please note that registration is required.

Speaker:

The passion Steve Windhager, Ph.D., has for wild things began as a child exploring the outdoors. Years in the Boy Scouts sharpened this focus, and later, working at the Lady Bird Johnson Wildflower Center in Austin, Texas, made it a way of life. He has studied the practice of restoring damaged ecosystems from both a philosophical as well as an applied angle and has come to celebrate the regional vernacular of gardening with the plants native to wherever he lives. Steve ran the research program at the Wildflower Center from 1999 to 2010, and then he came to California to be executive director at Santa Barbara Botanic Garden, the nation’s oldest botanic garden dedicated exclusively to native plants.