Las Placitas Association hosted two native plant hikes led by Michael Crofoot in 2016 and will be following up with a lecture in early 2017. For those of you who do not know Michael Crofoot, he is a local plant expert who moved here twenty years ago. He has worked in the botany and soil microbiology fields for many years and loves our enchanting northern Sandia foothills. He has compiled a 160-plant species Herbarium that LPA plans to publish in some form in 2017.