We are thrilled to continue to partner with the Wild Woods Restoration Project to bring you another year of educational events on native plants.
Join us for our second native plant identification walk led by Linda Rholeder, founder of the Wild Woods Restoration Project. We will focus on recognizing key native species — and how you tell them apart from pesky invasives.
Please wear hiking appropriate clothes.
About Linda Rholeder
Dr. Linda Rohleder is the founder of Wild Woods Restoration Project and serves as the primary leader of the organization. She was previously Director of Land Stewardship at the New York – New Jersey Trail Conference where she built the Trail Conference’s Invasives Strike Force volunteer program starting in 2011. By 2021, the program had trained over 400 invasives-mapping volunteers who collectively surveyed more than 1,500 miles of hiking trails for invasive plants. She organized more than 100 invasives-removal workdays and ran a seasonal conservation corps crew for seven years to remove invasive plants in parks across southern New York and northern New Jersey. Dr. Rohleder was also the founding coordinator of the Lower Hudson Partnership for Regional Invasive Species Management (PRISM) in New York leading it for almost ten years. She grew the partnership to over 50 organizations and agencies, and led the development and implementation of regional strategy for invasive species management in the Lower Hudson. In addition, Dr. Rohleder led a volunteer group to create and maintain the Trail Conference’s native plant gardens from 2016 through 2021 and conduct restoration projects at sites on New York and New Jersey state park lands.
In 2013, Dr. Rohleder received her PhD in Ecology from Rutgers University, where she studied the effects of deer on forest understories. While attending graduate school she worked as a seasonal park resource assistant in Monmouth County, NJ, and taught beginning Biology labs at Rutgers and Wetland Plant ID for Rutgers’ Wetland Delineation certification series. Dr. Rohleder has also spent more than 20 years creating native plant wildlife habitat on her own properties both in New Jersey and New York.