{"id":25,"name":"Janis Huggins","url":"","description":"Janis is a botanist and naturalist in the Aspen\/Snowmass area, and has spent more than 40 years exploring Colorado\u2019s high country.\r\n\r\nHer field guide, Wild at Heart, won the Colorado Book Award for non-fiction in 2005.\r\n\r\nBesides traveling the Rockies writing and photographing wildflowers, she guides and teaches for Aspen\u2019s Center for Environmental Studies, has worked for ten years as a field botanist for the Colorado Natural Heritage Program at Colorado State University, and has also taught alpine skiing and windsurfing.\r\n\r\nShe received a B.S. in Natural Sciences with an emphasis in Botany from the University Without Walls at Loretto Heights College (Denver) in 1981, where she was chosen\u00a0Student of the Year.\r\n\r\nJanis also studied at the University of Denver, the University of California at Santa Barbara, and the Biological Station at Flathead Lake in Montana, and holds a degree in Clinical Herbal Therapy.\r\n\r\nher goal in life is to help people see the landscape \u201cthrough new eyes,\u201d to cherish the fascinating species with which we share our surroundings, and to seek new ways to secure the future of those species as they are a part of the matrix that enriches life.","link":"https:\/\/www.quickreferencepublishing.com\/wholesale\/author\/janis_huggins\/","slug":"janis_huggins","avatar_urls":{"24":"https:\/\/www.quickreferencepublishing.com\/wholesale\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2011\/09\/Janis_Huggins-small.jpg","48":"https:\/\/www.quickreferencepublishing.com\/wholesale\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2011\/09\/Janis_Huggins-small.jpg","96":"https:\/\/www.quickreferencepublishing.com\/wholesale\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2011\/09\/Janis_Huggins-small.jpg"},"meta":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.quickreferencepublishing.com\/wholesale\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/25","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.quickreferencepublishing.com\/wholesale\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users"}]}}