Alicia Daniel, Advisor

Alicia Daniel’s love of nature has taken her across the continent from tracking black bears in Alaska to surveying bat caves in Texas to seeing an arribada of Olive Ridley sea turtles on a moonlit beach in Costa Rica. Exploring her Vermont backyard with Vermont Master Naturalists is now her dream come true. After 30 years of teaching UVM Field Naturalist graduate students, Alicia Daniel launched the Vermont Master Naturalist Program to advance conservation, build community, and connect Vermonters to the wild heart of place. Alicia is also the Field Naturalist for the City of Burlington working at BPRW in conservation education, reforestation, and managing forested parks for wildlife and plant diversity. She is excited to be working with the Vermont Alliance for Half-Earth to tell the compelling story of protecting the earth’s biodiversity in a new book.