Leader Details

John Chestnut John Chesnut is a highly experienced field biologist with extensive expertise in the flora, sensitive plants and vegetation communities of San Luis Obispo County, eastern Sierra and California deserts. Mr. Chesnut has designed and implemented regional scale native species restoration and rare ecosystem habitat projects in these regions. Mr. Chesnut is a key contributor to habitat restoration within the Morro Coast Audubon Sweet Spring Preserve via his enthusiastic volunteer efforts with the Los Osos Middle School Native Plant Project. Without diminishing the sense of wonder which arises from appreciating the complexity and relationships in our native habitat food webs and energy flows, Mr. Chesnut wants everyone to be confident that they can implement successful and needed restorations.