Matt Ritter

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    • 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
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PTCA 2021 Talk on Eucalpytus in San Diego
PTCA 2021 Talk on Eucalpytus in San Diego
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Pacific Islands Tree Information
Pacific Islands Tree Information
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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
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Worldwide hemisphere-dependent lean in Cook pines
Worldwide hemisphere-dependent lean in Cook pines
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Field Botany 2017
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SelecTree and Big Tree Registry
SelecTree and Big Tree Registry
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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. 

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Eucalyptus Scientists Featured in Counterpunch
Eucalyptus Scientists Featured in Counterpunch

Dr. Ritter sneaks his way onto a counterpunch article.

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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! 
 

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