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Expert in Rare Plant Field Surveys, Botanical Surveys, Field Taxonomy, Rare Plant Mitigation and Monitoring
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Summary of Expertise:
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Ms. Expert has been active in the field of conservation botany for more than twenty years. Her primary area of expertise is the design and implementation of botanical field surveys for endangered, threatened and sensitive plant species, generally as part of project-related environmental impact assessments (NEPA and CEQA) and/or federal relicensing (FERC) for large developments, including hydroelectric, solar, natural gas, wind, mining, and real estate development. As a field taxonomist she is proficient in the flora of the western North America, and has consulted with the leading taxonomists throughout the country, as well as publishing the results of her floristic work.. She has also implemented vegetation and rare plant monitoring plans, re-introductions of endangered species, morphometric and taxonomic studies, mitigation, and large-scale conservation plans. She has conducted more than 75 rare plant surveys throughout the West, working for federal, state, and local governmental agencies, non-profit organizations, land trusts, small and large environmental consulting firms, engineering firms, energy companies, and public utility districts. She spent five years as the lead botanist for the State of Washington. Her particular interest is crafting environmental documents that are clear, well-researched, and easily readable, and in developing materials and presentations that educate and provide information for the public on issues in rare plant conservation.
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Show Secondary and Basic Areas of Expertise | Localities:
Expert may consult nationally and internationally, and is also local to the following cities: Seattle, Washington;
Tacoma, Washington;
Vancouver, Washington;
Bellevue, Washington;
Everett, Washington;
Federal Way, Washington;
Kent, Washington;
Lakewood, Washington;
and Renton, Washington.
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1987
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BS
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Botany and Ecology
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The Evergreen State College
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2006 to
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(Undisclosed Consulting Company)
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Sole Proprietor
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As the sole proprietor of this consulting firm, she provides botanical and rare plant expertise throughout Western North America.
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2001 to 2006
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Washington Department of Natural Resources
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Washington Natural Heritage Program
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Lead Botanist
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As the lead botanist for the Washington Natural Heritage Program, she was responsible for all aspects of rare plant conservation throughout the state of Washington, including consultation with the USFWS, Section 6 project implementation, rare plant research and planning.
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1994 to 2001
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Calypso Consulting
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Partner and Botanist
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As a partner in Calypso Consulting, she provided botanical expertise on a wide variety of projects and surveys throughout the Pacific Northwest, including a multi-year study of the rare plants of the Hanford Nuclear Reservation.
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1986 to 1994
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(Undisclosed Consulting Company)
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Sole Proprietor
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As a consulting botanist, she worked with local governments on wetland ordinance development and implementation, rare plant surveys for the US Forest Service and other agencies, ecological research for the Washington Natural Heritage Program, and relicensing of major hydroelectric projects.
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1987 to 1994
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Associations/Societies
American Society of Plant Taxonomists, California Botanical Society, Society for Conservation Biology
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Professional Appointments
National committee for developing Element Occurrence standards, Natureserve, 2004.
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Publications and Patents Summary
She has published widely in both peer reviewed journals and agency publications, and is the co-editor of an anthology of environmental and natural history writing, She is also a co-author on three new plant taxa previously unknown to science.
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Selected Publications and Publishers
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- University of Utah Press
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- Madrono
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- Washington Natural Heritage Program
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- Conservation Genetics
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- Rhodora
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2001 to 2006
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Washington Department of Natural Resources
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Lead Botanist
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As the lead botanist for the Washington Natural Heritage Program, she was responsible for all aspects of rare plant conservation throughout the state of Washington, including consultation with the USFWS, Section 6 project implementation, rare plant research and planning.
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2010 to 2010
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Tongass National Forest, USFS
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Consulting Botanist
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Conducted rare plant surveys of karst areas on Prince of Wales and nearby islands in Southeastern Alaska.
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2007 to 2007
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Washington Department of Fish and Wildlife
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Consulting Botanist
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Conducted rare plant surveys in prairie areas owned by WDFW.
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1996 to 1996
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Gifford-Pinchot National Forest, USFS
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Consulting Botanist
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Conducted rare plant surveys in timber planning areas
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| Selected Consulting Examples: |
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She co-designed and conducted a three-year full floristic study and rare plant survey of the 600-square-mile Hanford Nuclear Reservation, The study was used in the development and planning for the Hanford National Monument, and over the course of the study she found and described three plant taxa new to science, several major range extensions, and more than 100 rare plant populations. The results of the study were also published in peer reviewed journals.
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She was responsible for planning and conducting rare plant and weed surveys, developing mitigation plans, and providing botanical documentation for FERC relicensing documents for seven major hydroelectric projects: two on the Columbia River, one on Lake Chelan, two on the Spokane River, one on the Pend Oreille River, and one on the Bear River of southern Idaho.
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She has provided botanical expertise for four large-scale solar power projects in the Mojave Desert of Southern California and Nevada.
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She designed long-term demographic monitoring for a USFWS candidate species on federal land,using transition matrix modeling, to show probabilities of long-term trends in the population.
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