Desert Keepers: Restoring Balance in a Changing Climate

When it comes to environmental conservation, maintaining a healthy ecosystem balance is key. Deciding what balance means is more tricky especially in desert ecosystems which are often neglected or lumped in with “problem” areas. Let’s dive into the different ways people think about how we ought to approach caring for our world, how we can work with instead of against natural processes, and answering the question “what does a healthy desert look like?”

Ranger Lydia is an El Paso native who fell in love with nature on camping trips as a young girl. To learn more about these places she loved, she obtained her bachelor’s degree in Biology from Hope College and latter began working for Texas Parks and Wildlife as an Interpretive Park Ranger. As a Park Ranger, she gets to share the amazing, hidden, beauty of the Chihuahuan Desert with locals and visitors alike and to watch people discover, or re-discover, the joy of the outdoors.