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Justin Evertson has worked for the Nebraska Forest Service and Nebraska Statewide Arboretum since 1990, serving as the green infrastructure coordinator since 2010. He oversees programs that provide funding, technical assistance and educational outreach for community forestry and public landscaping efforts across the state. His areas of expertise are in trees, arboriculture and sustainable landscaping. Evertson has authored several publications with an emphasis on woody plant selection. He’s passionate about trees, the native landscape, biodiversity and sustainability. Evertson lives in Waverly, Nebraska, where he serves as a volunteer community forester planting trees across the community and working to make the community more biodiverse and sustainable.
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Eileen Bergt is the Assistant Directory of Landscape Services, her main focus in horticulture is in campus gardens, any trees, shrubs, perennials and annuals on campus. She is has a chair on the Nebraska State Board of Landscape Architects and is a member of National Trust for Historic Preservation. Bergt is familiar with the history of the university’s campus gardens and the landscape and gave a N 150 lecture on this topic in June of 2019.
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Kim Todd is an assistant professor and an extension horticulture specialist focusing on turf, landscape design, and horticulture systems. Her research interest include landscape design and management landscape architecture and plant materials as well as the development of niche landscape markets in rural areas. Todd has worked on multiple teams where she has created a horticulture course and/or landscape designs.
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Roch Gaussoin, PhD is an extension turfgrass specialist and professor in the Department of Agronomy and Horticulture. His current research focuses on turfgrass weed control and management of modified root-zones, especially golf course greens. In 2023, Gaussoin received the United States Golf Association Green Section Award for a significant career impact on developing strategies for resilient turfgrass management.
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Bob Henrickson is the horticulture program coordinator with the Nebraska Statewide Arboretum. As the program coordinator, he assists affiliated arboretum sites with plant collection development and works to acquire, propagate and produce mostly native plants for plant sales to the general public. Henrickson is a Nebraska-certified nurseryman and a certified arborist with the International Society of Arboriculture. He has been the host of a live, call-in gardening radio talk show, “How’s It Growin’?” in the Lincoln area since 2000. Bob is knowledgeable about plants for pollinators, wild edible plants and edible landscape plants; woody plants, ornamental grasses; herbs; ornamental grasses; raingarden and wetland plants; and rock gardens.