Joanna Clines Author

Joanna Clines has been the forest botanist for the Sierra National Forest since 1990. Clines served on the boards of the California Native Plant Society and the California Invasive Plant Council, and she is past president of the Sequoia chapter of CNPS. She lives in the Sierra Nevada and can be found botanizing on or off the job, often at dusk.

Stephen Sharnoff wrote and illustrated A Field Guide to California Lichens, and he and his late wife, Sylvia Sharnoff, did the photographic fieldwork for Lichens of North America. His photographs have appeared in numerous books, exhibitions, and magazines, including National Geographic, Smithsonian, and Science News. He lives in Santa Fe.