Matt Ritter

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  • BOOKS & PUBS
    • California Trees
    • California Plants: A Guide to Our Iconic Flora
    • A Californian's Guide to the Trees Among Us
    • Something Wonderful
    • Halo around the Moon
    • Rainwalkers
    • Plants of San Luis Obispo: Their Lives and Stories
    • Eucalyptus Field Guide
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Featured
Great Botanical Books
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URBAN WOOD Trees for San Luis Obispo
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California Big Tree Map
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Enhancing natural cycles in agro-ecosystems to boost plant carbon capture and soil storage
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Verbicide by David Orr
PTCA 2021 Talk on Eucalpytus in San Diego
PTCA 2021 Talk on Eucalpytus in San Diego
Pacific Islands Tree Information
Pacific Islands Tree Information
Twenty Undeservedly Rare Trees for Southern California
Twenty Undeservedly Rare Trees for Southern California
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The Five Best Urban Tree Leaves to Use as Toilet Paper
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Flaunt Magazine: Climate Change and Fiction
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Field Botany 2019
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Field Botany 2018
Worldwide hemisphere-dependent lean in Cook pines
Worldwide hemisphere-dependent lean in Cook pines
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Field Botany 2017
SelecTree and Big Tree Registry
SelecTree and Big Tree Registry
Matt Featured on Nan Sterman's Show, A Growing Passion
Matt Featured on Nan Sterman's Show, A Growing Passion

Matt was featured by Nan Sterman on her television show, A Growing Passion. The feature was covered by KPBS, a San Diego news station. 

Eucalyptus Scientists Featured in Counterpunch
Eucalyptus Scientists Featured in Counterpunch

Dr. Ritter sneaks his way onto a counterpunch article.

Cal Poly Plant Conservatory
Cal Poly Plant Conservatory

The Cal Poly Plant Conservatory is a large glasshouse facility located in the center of the Cal Poly campus. The primary mission of the Cal Poly Plant Conservatory is to maintain a diverse, well-documented, and accurately labeled living plant collection supporting and enhancing teaching and research for the faculty and students of Cal Poly. A secondary goal of the Conservatory is to help foster education about plant biology and conservation of rare species through support of community outreach programs!