Presenter Details

Ann Howald Ann Howald first visited the Mono Basin at age eleven, fishing June Lake with her family. Now a retired botanist, she lives in Mono County each May-October in her used Airstream/mobile botany lab, and is well on her way to completing a book on Mono County plants. For many years she has led botany field trips throughout Mono County for the Bristlecone Chapter of the California Native Plant Society. She taught High Sierra field seminars for the Mono Lake Committee for 25 years, retiring in 2019. She still pulls weeds wherever she finds them, with help from her friends.