Longtime botanist and nature photographer George Oxford Miller has explored the West for 30 years and has been published in books, magazines, and newspapers. He's written 6 guidebooks to plants and animals of the Southwest, including the best-sellers Landscaping with Native Plants of the Southwest and A Field Guide to Wildflowers, Trees, and Shrubs of Texas, as well as 5 smartphone wildflower guides. He is president of the Albuquerque Chapter of the Native Plant Society of New Mexico, which includes southern Colorado.