Brian will focus on concepts of designing native plant landscapes for wildlife including important lessons about landscape context, structure, and the realities of attracting wildlife to space-limited settings.

inspired by the striking dependence of birds on distinct plant communities, Brian began tinkering with native plants in about 1989. He has subsequently become a wildlife/plant/conservation ecologist (Williams Wild land Consulting), part-time teacher, and recently obtained a landscape contractor’s license. His plantings persist in Natomas, Lincoln, and Granite Bay, but they are still in the conceptual stage at his residence on the Yuba/Butte county line where the Williams family lives in their strawbale, adobe-plastered home.