Alex Slakie is a restoration ecologist, botanist, and herbalist from the Pacific Northwest. He supplies willow live stakes and seeds for salmon habitat projects, sustainably harvested wild medicinal plants for herbal companies, and interesting nursery plants for home gardeners. He nursery grows and wild-tends willow coppices and stands of medicinal plants on the lower Columbia River and Columbia River Gorge.

Alex studied ecology and sustainable agriculture at The Evergreen State College in Olympia, WA. He became deeply interested in botany and restoration ecology while doing a work-study program at a nursery, and has been following that pathway ever since. Alex has 15 years experience wild-tending willow coppices for live stake production and is passionate about this almost lost art of forest management. He is currently working on setting up systems for fire mitigation in forests using coppicing and biochar production.

Alex is passionate about connecting people to the land through ecological restoration and plant medicine. The conservation and ecological restoration fields are at a critical moment in time, and are being asked to examine and change their roles in colonization through combining restoration with social justice work. Alex seeks to create new pathways in these fields for the healing of the environment and all beings, including the people within it. He currently resides on the lands of the Clackamas, Wasco, Cascades, Multnomah, and Chinook peoples in Corbett, Oregon.