Ashley Spotts lives in beautiful, historic Lancaster City in Lancaster County, Pennsylvania. She currently serves as the Pennsylvania Lancaster restoration coordinator. Ashley works with landowners and farmers in the county to install forested riparian buffers and other best management practices.

She has a bachelor’s degree from Penn State University in wildlife and fisheries science. She has a love for native trees, shrubs, and streams throughout the state. Her passion for nature was sparked in the headwaters of Pequea Creek, where she spent her childhood swimming, flipping rocks, and catching crayfish.