Researchers

Ana Lilia Reina-Guerrero received her undergraduate degree from the Universidad de Sonora in Hermosillo in Agricultural Sciences with a thesis on Medicinal Plants of the Mountain Pima Indians of the Municipio de Yécora, Sonora. She has been involved in ethnobotanical studies with the Seri and Mayo Indians, including the Mayo Ethnobotany book with David Yetman and Tom Van Devender. She is interested in the ethnobotany of Sonoran cacti and was a collaborator on the Cáctaceas de Sonora and My Nana’s Remedies books. Since 1990 she has been involved in floristic surveys in the Arizona-Sonora borderlands in northeastern Sonora border region, and the Yécora area in association with the Arizona-Sonora Desert Sonora Desert Museum (ASDM) and Sky Island Alliance. She and Tom Van Devender have made over 20,000 plant collections mostly in the state of Sonora.Since 2009, she has led a US Fish & Wildlife Service (FWS) project to interview rural residents in Central Sonora about the Masked Bobwhite Quail. She has been very active in plant inventories on field trips to Sonora as part of the Madrean Archipelago Biodiversity Assessment project at Sky Island Alliance.She is a professional English-Spanish translator who has translated a broad range of natural history writings for ASDM, US Fish & Wildlife Service, the San Diego Natural History Museum, and other conservation organizations.