Stoloniferous pussytoes (Antennaria flagellaris) COSEWIC assessment and status report: chapter 14

Biographical Summary of Report Writers

George W. Douglas has an M.Sci. (Forestry) from the University of Washington and a Ph.D (Botany) from the University of Alberta, Edmonton. George has worked with rare plants for over 20 years. He was senior author of The Rare Plants of the Yukon (1981), co-authored The Rare Plants of British Columbia (1985) and was senior author of the Rare Native Plants of British Columbia (1998, 2002). He is also the senior editor for the Illustrated Flora of British Columbia (1998-2002). George served as the program botanist for the British Columbia Conservation Data Centre from 1991 to 2003 and is currently running an ecological consulting company. George has written or co-written or is in the process of writing 33 COSEWIC status reports during this period.

Jenifer L. Penny has a B.Sc. in Biology from the University of Victoria. She has been employed by the British Columbia Conservation Data Centre as a botanist since 1995. Jenifer has done extensive field work in botany and is senior author for three COSEWIC status reports. She is also senior author for the family, Primulaceae in the Illustrated Flora of British Columbia (1999) and co-author of the Rare Native Vascular Plants of British Columbia, second edition (2002).

Ksenia Barton has an M.Sc. (Biology) from McGill University. Ksenia specializes in plant ecology and has conducted research and resource inventory projects throughout British Columbia for the past seven years. She has written four species accounts for rare plants as part of the British Columbia Identified Wildlife Strategy. She has recently completed extensive surveys for rare plants throughout the Black Hills (in South Dakota and Wyoming) for the US Forest Service.

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