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Kevin Dahl works as National Park Conservation Association’s Arizona Senior Program Manager and works on issues concerning Arizona’s national parks, including such well-known places as Grand Canyon, Petrified Forest, and Saguaro. Prior to NPCA, Kevin was executive director of Native Seeds/SEARCH, a regional group that works to preserve the genetic diversity of Southwestern Native American crops. He was also executive director of the Tucson Audubon Society and Natural Resources Superintendent for Pima County’s Parks and Recreation Department. An alumnus of both the University of Arizona and Arizona State University, Kevin has a long-term interest in plants that led to a degree in ethnobotany from Prescott College. He is author of Wild Plants of the Sonoran Desert, published by the Arizona-Sonora Desert Museum, and Native Harvest: Authentic Southwestern Gardening, published by the Western National Parks Association. As a hobby he has compiled a collection of quotes about the Sonoran Desert, located at https://wordsofsonora.wordpress.com