Todd Keeler-Wolf, Senior Vegetation Ecologist at California Department of Fish and Wildlife

Dr. Todd Keeler-Wolf is an ecologist who has worked in California for over 30 years studying the vegetation and flora of virtually every terrestrial ecosystem in the state. Currently he is the Senior Vegetation Ecologist at the California Department of Fish and Game and leads their Vegetation Classification and Mapping Program. He is also program director of the California Native Plant Society’s Vegetation Program. He is co-author with John Sawyer and Julie Evens of the upcoming Second Edition of The Manual of California Vegetation and several other books and publications, including the revised UC Press California Plant Life Natural History guide, and the third edition of the Terrestrial Vegetation of California, which he co-edited with Michael Barbour and Allan Schoenherr. Todd received his undergraduate and graduate degrees at UC Santa Cruz.