Jason Wise is an outdoor and online (@jasonjourneyman) environmental educator, a Certified California Naturalist, native plant dad, and a proud tree hugger. He has a masters degree in environmental policy (MPP) and loves helping everyone see the beautiful diversity of our urban ecosystems that’re all around us so we will fight to repair and preserve them. After a mid-career burnout at a government affairs desk job, he pivoted to search for meaningful work outdoors.
Countless volunteer hours in plant and wildlife habitat conservation, as many local science classes he could fit into his schedule, and video making skills honed during the pandemic downtime, brought him to his current career as an environmental educator in person and on social media. Today he journey's around the western United States, documenting hopeful stories in nature and highlighting the conservation battles where our help is needed. He believes that by connecting to nature, we connect to ourselves and each other, which helps this world become a happier, gentler, more sustainable place.
If you'd like more California Native plants, sent a two sentence email to D7Inquiries@dot.ca.gov (for LA) and Sustainability@dot.ca.gov (for the rest of CA).
Links:
Jasonjourneyman.com
CivicSoul.org
projectmonarchla.org
Sierraclub.org
Treepeople.org
inaturalist.org
nrdc.org
give.nationalparks.org
On Instagram @jasonjourneyman @blackforager, @mixerchristiannn @goldernstatenaturalist @queerbrownvegan @goldenstatenaturalist @civicsoulorg
