Anne LeSenne

Anne LeSenne is currently the Assistant Horticulture Extension Agent for Pinal County Arizona through the University of Arizona. She has a master’s degree in Horticulture from Texas Tech and a bachelor’s degree in Horticulture from BYU Idaho. Anne has been a landscape designer and irrigation designer for over 20 years. She was a Certified Landscape Irrigation Auditor with the Irrigation Association for several years and performed audits for her clients to improve water efficiency. Anne became a certified arborist with ISA in 2006 and became a Board-Certified Master Arborist in 2017. Anne became a certified arborist with ISA in 2006 and has also been a Municipal Specialist and TRAQ certified for a few years. She has specialized in Tree Preservation during and after construction and prepared numerous Tree Mitigation reports which included collecting data on over 30,000 native oak trees in California. She has been an Expert witness in Tree litigation cases for both defense and prosecution lawyers. She taught Horticulture related classes at two community colleges in the Portland Oregon area for a decade including Plant Identification, Pesticides, Landscape Design, and Beekeeping. She was the driving force behind one of those colleges becoming certified as a Tree Campus USA and Bee Campus USA. She now lives and works in the low desert of Arizona and is working to help more people get ISA trained and certified. She volunteers on the Arizona Community Tree Council board and the advisory board of Trees Matter who are working to increase the tree canopy of Phoenix and surrounding areas. She went through the Master Beekeeping program at Oregon State University and has taught beekeeping classes for eight years. She has kept bees for over 30 years and has a collection of over 75 monofloral honeys that she uses to do tastings and educate both consumers and beekeepers. Her current passion is educating Arizona beekeepers to become more profitable and sustainable.