About

Lee Ann Landstrom has been an interpretive naturalist and environmental educator since 1980. She is now retired from the directorship (27-years) of Eastman Nature Center with the Three Rivers Park District. She supervised a staff of 12, and oversaw trails, habitat, and exhibits, as well as taught school and public classes. In 1998 Lee Ann was awarded their annual Excellent Employee award. She was also a part-time youth class instructor at the Science Museum of Minnesota in St. Paul for nearly 20 years.

Lee Ann served ten years on the Minnesota Naturalists' Association, and was a board member and past president of the Minnesota Association for Environmental Education. She gave presentations at regional education conferences and wrote frequent columns for employee and association newsletters.

Lee Ann has a BA in biology from Carleton College in Northfield, Minnesota, and a master's in biology/ecology from the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor.

In her leisure time, she likes to travel, garden, bird watch, and take photographs. She has led numerous nature tours to Costa Rica, where she co-owns a dairy farm in the cloud forest.