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The Sunday Symposium at Oakmont Village |
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June 14, 2009 William McNamara Plants on the Move: Why Botanical Gardens are Important
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Human beings this has been of great benefit to us, though it has not been without problems. However, today there is a great urgency to get plants and their seeds to botanic gardens and seed banks due to the severe, yet little mentioned extinction crisis. Bill is the executive Director of the Quarryhill Botanical Garden, a private research garden in Glen Ellen, California, He is a Field Associate of the Department of Botany, California Academy of Sciences, San Francisco and an Associate Member of the joint Chinese=American Committee for the Flora of China, He was recently appointed Associate Curator of the Castle Howard Arboretum in Yorkshire, England and is a member of the San Francisco Botanical Garden at Strybing Arboretum Horticultural Advisory Committee. Bill has a Master’s degree in Conservation Biology.
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