Sunny Himes
Stewardship Associate
Sunny Himes is a native of North Carolina and has lived in the mountains of WNC for the better part of 18 years. She received her B.A. in biology from UNC-Asheville in 1996 and a M.S. degree in biology from Western Carolina University in 2002. After graduating from WCU, Sunny worked for the Nature Conservancy in Nebraska and North Dakota for a year as a prairie restoration technician and a prescribed fire crew member. She returned to western North Carolina in 2003 and began teaching environmental science at WCU in the biology department. For 6 summers she worked as a vegetation technician and manager for the Balsam Mountain Trust and her duties included rare plant rescue, exotic invasive plant control, native plant propagation, coordination of native plant sales, and botanical research. Today, in addition to her part-time position with the Land Trust for the Little Tennessee, Sunny continues to teach and manage laboratories at WCU. She enjoys “botanizing,” gardening, hiking, camping, and restoring her little cabin.
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828-507-1188
P. O. Box 1148 - 88 East Main Street, Franklin, Nc 28744-1148 - Phone: 828-524-2711 - Fax: 828-524-4741