with Dr. Caitlin McDonough MacKenzie.

Botanists have many plant love stories. These stories have power: they bring people together, they connect people with nature, and they help us bridge our research and our communities. Dr. McDonough MacKenzie will share the work of Plant Love Stories, a project that collects and shares stories highlighting the emotional connections between people and plants. Mountain aven flowers in unlikely low-elevation habitats, an herbarium specimen of a white rhodora flower, and dwarf beech trees far from the alpine zone inspired Dr. McDonough MacKenzie’s career studying the impacts of climate change on vegetation above treeline. Her work at the intersection of botany and management increasingly depends on forging connections with people — including historical collaborators — to understand and protect plants.

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