Linda Esposito

Linda is a northern California botanist with special interest and expertise in California coastal prairie. Her professional focus is on protection, restoration, and stewardship of significant natural lands in community-based settings. After completing her graduate research, a floristic/ecological study of a west Sonoma County coastal sheep ranch, she designed and coordinated a riparian habitat restoration project in which the landowner and community volunteers collaborated to restore native vegetation to riparian terrace sites and to install a biotechnical bank stabilization structure. She is presently working with the Ocean Song Farm & Wilderness Center, a non-profit environmental education center, to adaptively manage a 20 acre coastal prairie site as a community demonstration project in order to promote effective stewardship of this important resource in the local area. She freelances as a botanical consultant specializing in plant surveys, vegetation classification and mapping, and restoration design. She is active with the Salmon Creek Watershed Council. As a member of the Board of Bodega Land Trust, she assists in easement monitoring and baseline documentation, coordinates volunteers, and helps edit a quarterly newsletter.