Mary O'Brien
Executive Director
Mary O'Brien serves pro bono as the Director of Project Eleven Hundred. For 40 years Mary has worked within environmental organizations on pesticide reform, environmental law, and conservation-based public lands management. Her masters and doctorate in Botany were pollination studies in the San Bernardino National Forest of southern California.
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Jan. 23, 2026
S5E3: How Honeybees Threaten The Desert's Native Pollinators
Mary O’Brien of Project 1100 explains how commercial honeybees compete with and spread disease to native solitary bees, why public lands are essential pollinator refuges and what genuine bee conservation requires.
Guest: Mary O'Brien