
MaryAnn McGarry is professor emerita of Plymouth State University in Environmental Science and Policy. She continues to co-teach a Foundation in Environmental Policy course in the spring semester, offer Shin Rin Yoku (forest bathing) sessions, and give tree tours on campus and in the community. She has lived in Plymouth since 2004 and PAREI installed solar hot water in 2006. She is on the list for a rooftop PV array to charge her plug-in hybrid car, lawn mower, and mini-split. She is converting her yard to perennials for pollinators. McGarry developed one of the two required courses for the sustainability minor at PSU. She loves living in a walkable community. McGarry loves to ski- downhill, skin, and Nordic and bike, especially on Rail trail sections throughout New England. She is hiking all the 4000 peaks in the Northeast and has completed all the high peaks in NH and Vermont so far, and many in the Adirondacks and Maine.