Desiree Narango, PhD
Conservation Scientist, Vermont Center for Ecostudies
Cultivating Backyard Habitat for Pollinators in Every Season
From creating “Soft Landings” to leaving the leaves and planting Keystone Species...there are so many brilliant ways for us to make our residential properties safer, more productive and more welcoming to our critical pollinator species. Remember, a healthy population of moths, butterflies, and bees, in turn generates healthy populations of birds, mammals, and everything up the native food chain.
Join renown conservation scientists and research ecologist Desiree Narango for an enlightening talk on action steps we can take, starting this fall, to cultivate our backyard habitats for native pollinators. Does Desiree’s name sound familiar? For all of you Doug Tallamy fans, Dr. Narango earned her PhD under Dr. Tallamy with her research focused on the impact of caterpillar populations on Chickadee survival. Her research primarily focuses on biodiversity conservation and habitat restoration.
She now works for the Vermont Center for Ecosystem Studies and is currently working on the “Proof of Life ™ ” tool, developed by sustainable landscape company Plan it Wild, to measure biodiversity with Aspetuck in our Bridgeport Miyawaki Forest project sites.
Prior to joining Vermont Center for Ecostudies, Desiree was a Conservation Research Fellow working at the USDA Forest Service, University of Massachusetts Amherst, and at University of Delaware. Desiree completed her PhD in 2018 at University of Delaware advised by Doug Tallamy . She also completed a M.S. in 2012 at The Ohio State University