PRESENTER SPOTLIGHT

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Caitlin Youngquist

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Dr. Caitlin Youngquist is the Director of Communication and Education for SnapLands. She holds a PhD in soil science and specializes in soil health and compost. Caitlin served as an Extension Educator for the University of Wyoming for nine years where she worked with gardners all over the state teaching soil health and no-till gardening. Caitlin also has a small compost and topsoil company in Worland.  

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Scott Schell

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Scott Schell is the University of Wyoming’s extension entomology specialist based in Laramie.  Scott’s background includes three years spent working on a farming and ranching operation in Kansas just after high school. He decided there had to be an easier way to make a living and still be a part of

agriculture.  Returning to his native Wyoming, he received his B.S. and M.S. degrees in entomology.  He then worked as a

research associate in the College of Agriculture for nine years, helping to develop economical and less environmentally harmful methods for rangeland grasshopper management.  Starting in 2003, his responsibilities changed to the identification of all sorts of arthropods submitted through the Extension system to UW and providing the public management recommendations for insect pests of all sorts.