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product announcements, and videos. Our guest this week is Am Biclay. Anne is the co-author of the

hidden half of nature, a book she wrote with her husband, David Montgomery, and my last podcast interview.

Anne is a biologist, writer, and gardener with

wide-ranging interests. She has over two decades of professional experience spanning field biology,

watershed restoration, environmental planning and stewardship, and public health. She uses her

broad background and endless fascination with a natural world to examine connections between

people and their environments. Anne attended the University of California, Santa Cruz, earning

bachelor's degrees in biology and natural history. She also holds a master's degree in landscape

architecture from the University of California, Berkeley. Well, thanks, Ann, I appreciate you coming on the show today. I'm really excited to get to talk to you

today. Yeah, me too, Tad. Thank you. So can we start off giving listeners a little bit of your

background? Yeah, sure. So I come from sort of a very broad background for, you know, sort of formal education-wise.

I have degrees in biology and natural history, and a graduate degree in a field that's called

environmental planning, which is sort of a sub-discipline of landscape

architecture. And so that's kind of my formal training. And I have to say it's no surprise that I

have ended up enamored with the botanical world because of all of those things. One of my earliest memories as a kid,

I grew up in sort of the suburbs outside of Denver, and one of my earliest memories was

wandering around in our yard because you did that when I was a kid.

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