Robin Halford

Robin Halford is a fifth generation Californian who graduated from Colorado State with majors in zoology and entomology.

After several years of working in Death Valley in the winter and Yellowstone National Park in the summer, she decided to make a change.In 1990, she discovered Borrego Springs and never left.

The owner of the Desert Robin shop on Palm Canyon Drive, Halford assisted Art Morley and Keith Smeltzer with field work for their Lower Willows chapter in Barbara W. Massey's Guide to Birds of the Anza-Borrego Desert. She is currently a volunteer parabotanist in the San Diego Natural History Museum's Plant Atlas program.

Halford is perhaps best known as the author of Hiking in Anza-Borrego: Over 100 Half-Day Hikes.

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