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Hardy Californians - a Woman's Life with Native Plants Tahoe Hiking The Cascade Mountains of NorthernLester G. E. Rowntree (1879 1979), free spirited adventurer and pioneering botanist, was fifty two when she traded a comfortable home for the life of a peripatetic traveler in the California mountains, deserts, and forests. Through hundreds of magazine and journal articles, two acclaimed books, and uncounted public lectures, Rowntree shared her vast knowledge of California native plants and at the same time argued passionately for the protection of