Be sure to attend this program by Bob and Toni as they have put together yet another great exploratory adventure. You don't want to miss this presentation!

Bob Webb has worked on land-use issues, landscape ecology and conservation concerns of the southwestern United States and Baja California for more than 30 years. For the past 12 years, he has worked with Mexican government scientists on plant conservation issues in Baja California centering on cirio, cardon, and other charismatic species that are iconic to the peninsula. He has a Ph.D from the University of Arizona in Geosciences (1985) and has worked for the National Research Program of the U.S. Geological Survey for nearly 20 years.

Bob has collected succulent plants for about 20 years. For his day job, he is a hydrologist with the U.S. Geological Survey in Tucson; however, he has worked as a plant ecologist in the southwestern United States and Baja, California for nearly 30 years. He's been traveling to the Arabian Peninsula and Africa since the mid-1990s and has visited Oman, Kenya, Socotra, Yemen and South Africa in search of succulent plants.

Bob has produced around 200 publications, including 12 books, with many more on the way. Several of these books are benchmark volumes on environmental change in the Mojave and Sonoran Deserts. Bob Webb and Toni Yocum are owners of Arid Lands Greenhouses at 3560 W. Bilby Road Tucson AZ 85746 Phone: (520) 883-9404.