Lydia Lohrer- Bevier

Instructor and naturalist Lydia Lohrer-Bevier is an educational consultant and specializes in introducing urban children to nature. She has authored hundreds of articles and been a frequent television and radio guest. Lohrer-Bevier is the founder of a youth conservation education program, Outdoor Explorers in the Classroom. She has freelanced for the Detroit News for more than fifteen years, as well as been a columnist for Michigan Out-of-Doors Magazine and Woods-N-Water News. Lohrer-Bevier hosted a television show on the Outdoor Channel and hosted and produced The Wild Life on WJR. Lohrer-Bevier teaches programs such as Wild Edibles, Survival Skills, Fly-Fishing for Families and Becoming an Outdoors-Woman. She was a consultant on The Salvation Army Outdoors Initiative pilot, now in eleven states. She is a member of the Children and Nature Network, the Environmental Literacy Policy Committee an appointee to the Michigan State Parks and an appointee to the Michigan State Parks and Outdoor Recreation Blue Ribbon Panel. Lohrer-Bevier is a mom of four. She used to be a professional archer.