Lynn Watson
For the past six years, the significant contributions made by Lynn Watson on behalf of the More Mesa Preservation Coalition have had an extremely positive impact on our efforts. She has been the driving force behind the creation, maintenance and enhancement of our web site; acknowledged by the Santa Barbara community as an outstanding resource, providing both updates on issues concerning More Mesa, and as an excellent source of information on its plants and animals as well.
Lynn conceives, writes and illustrates most of the new features on the web site having to do with the natural world: birds, plants, habitats, geology, etc. As examples, she has implemented a feature that identifies locations of native plants on More Mesa by season, and has also written a detailed and extensive technical paper on white-tailed kites; one that has elicited queries from birders throughout the west.
Lynn’s work as an acknowledged amateur botanist and birder has also contributed to the identification of native plants persisting on More Mesa, as well as identifying invasive candidates for eradication. Her beautiful photographs, gracing not only the MMPC web site, but most of the pages of the More Mesa Handbook, have been recognized and published in other venues. She has provided photos for local interpretative signs, and in response to numerous requests from educational and environmental bodies for the use of her CalPhotos images.
Lynn’s interest in nature was nurtured by wildlife experiences in  southern Africa - from the bush areas around the Limpopo river when living as a child in Musina and on camping trips to Botswana, Namibia, Swaziland, Lesotho, Zimbabwe, Kwa-Zulu Natal, Mozambique, the Cape and others. On these trips she also enjoyed photography for the first time with a second-hand Pentax Spotmatic. She realized later that she probably would have been better suited studying the biological sciences instead of physical sciences at university. After a short career as an industrial chemist which took her to Europe for technical courses, she changed her vocation to software engineering that continued when she moved to Santa Barbara. Since then she has been involved in computer graphics, image processing, and digital photography coding. Experience in programming has allowed her to contribute to her love of nature by supporting web sites that promote the conservation and restoration of native habitat, flora and fauna in Santa Barbara.
Lynn Watson’s work on behalf of the More Mesa Preservation Coalition has been a major factor in enabling MMPC, a small volunteer non-profit, to build a reputation as an organization known for its high degree of effectiveness and professionalism. THANK YOU LYNN!
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