Meet The Team: Anne Marie Holt, SYRCL’s Forest Conservation Project Manager

Anne Marie Holt, SYRCL’s Forest Conservation Project Manager, grew up in nearby Auburn and developed a love of the outdoors from a young age with the local river and mountains as her playground.

For her bachelors she left California to study at the University of St Andrews in Scotland, where she received her BS in Zoology. After completing her undergraduate studies, Anne Marie moved back to the Sacramento area and worked for the California Department of Food and Agriculture in their Pest Detection and Emergency projects program.

For her graduate studies she attended Wageningen University & Research in the Netherlands earning her MS in Biology with a focus on Ecology and Biodiversity.  During her time there, her graduate research was comprised of two areas:

• the distribution of vegetation in the India Muerta Wetlands in Uruguay as a remote sensory study
• a remote methodology for a linguistic and ethnobotanical plant identification project in Guyana.

After her studies, she came back to the foothills of the Sierra Nevada, and can now be found hiking and climbing in the summer and backcountry skiing and camping in the winter.  

In SYRCL’s Forest Health program, Anne Marie’s role as the Forest Conservation Project Manager is often out in the field working on forest health assessments in the Yuba Watershed or researching new ways of managing forests for resiliency.