About Liese

Liese Greensfelder grew up in Northern California, hiking the trails of Mt. Tamalpais and the Sierra Nevada. At 17, she spent a year in Denmark as an exchange student, and later lived in Norway for three years, where she ran a farm, studied at ag school, and worked in the crew’s mess hall aboard a Norwegian coastal freighter.

 With a B.S. and M.S. in plant sciences, and a master’s certificate in science communication, she has worked as a county farm advisor, spearheaded an agricultural development project in the Guatemalan highlands, and has written hundreds of articles about recent research in science, engineering and medicine, both as a freelancer and as a writer in the news offices of three University of California campuses. In 2011, she co-edited and contributed articles to The Nature of This Place: Investigations and Adventures in the Yuba Watershed.

 She and her husband live off-grid in a 5-household cooperative in the Sierra Nevada foothills, where all members jointly manage their 120-acre forested parcel for old-growth habitat. Given the seven owl species that visit the land, and the regular appearance on trail cams of mountain lions, bears, bobcats, foxes, ringtail cats and other critters, they think they’ve done a pretty good job of it.