Photo Credit: Lisa Blaschke
Laurie Roath Frazier
Laurie Roath Frazier is a naturalist, educator, and science writer. She lives in Blanco, Texas. Her new book is Navigating Rocky Terrain: Caves, Karsts, and the Soul of Unseen Spaces.
April 12, 2025
ENVIRONMENTAL SUSTAINABILITY & TEXAS
- 10:00 am - 11:00 am
- | Location of Session: Salazar Gallery
- Adult Sessions
- Start of Signing: 11:15 am
- | Signing Location: Festival Marketplace
About the Event
Journalist and butterfly advocate Monika Maeckle (The Monarch Butterfly Migration: Its Rise and Fall) considers how pollinators are affected by climate change and habitat loss. Naturalist and educator Laurie Roath Frazier (Navigating Rocky Terrain: Caves, Karsts, and the Soul of Unseen Spaces) focuses on the Texas Hill Country, and the ecological issues facing the region.
About the Author
Photo Credit: Lisa Blaschke
Photo Credit: Ken Rivard
Monika Maeckle
Monika Maeckle is a longtime journalist and nature writer based in San Antonio, Texas. She worked closely with the National Wildlife Federation to ensure San Antonio would become a Monarch Butterfly Champion City, the first in the nation. With a long career in media and marketing, Maeckle has a national following for her website the Texas Butterfly Ranch and she co-founded San Antonio’s independent nonprofit news site, the San Antonio Report, where she continues to serve as a contributor. She also founded San Antonio’s Monarch Butterfly and Pollinator Festival. She’s working on a book about beekeeping and her book about plants will be released soon. The Monarch Migration: Its Rise and Fall is out now.
Moderator
Katherine Romans
Katherine Romans is the Executive Director of the Hill Country Alliance (HCA), a regional nonprofit focused on bringing people together to protect the water, land, communities, and night skies of the Texas Hill Country. Katherine also serves as the inaugural chair of the Texas Hill Country Conservation Network, a coalition of more than 75 nonprofits and academic institutions utilizing a collective impact approach to scale conservation in the region. Katherine brings more than two decades of nonprofit management, community engagement, communications, and legislative experience to bear on the natural resource challenges facing Central Texas. Under her leadership HCA has doubled in size, formalized its programmatic focal areas, and launched several new visionary collaborative conservation projects. Katherine holds a Master of Environmental Management from the Yale School of the Environment. She resides in Austin, Texas with her husband and two young children.
