Touring Oklahoma’s Biodiversity: From Bald Cypress to Ponderosa Pines

Join Priscilla Crawford in the Sam Noble Museum auditorium at 11:00 a.m. on June 15 for a free presentation exploring the biodiversity of our state. Priscilla Crawford has been exploring Oklahoma’s biodiversity for over 25 years.  Coming to Oklahoma to study grasslands, she soon found out that there was much more to Oklahoma than prairie!  Through her position as Conservation Biologist at the Oklahoma Biological Survey, she has worked on projects across all 12 of our ecoregions – surveying endangered birds, looking for invasive aquatic plants, measuring trees of the Ozark forests, collecting data on mesquite grasslands, restoring biodiversity to degraded systems, and more.  Her current big project is a book that will celebrate Oklahoma’s natural diversity and introduce people to the amazing ecosystems and organisms of the state.