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Shane Ford has a B.Sc. and M.Sc. from the University of Victoria and is a professional agrologist and biologist. He has been working as a contract field ecologist for the Ministry of Forests and as a naturalist for BC Parks. Shane is an ecological reserve warden for Trial Island and works as a biologist for the Conservation Data Centre of the Ministry of Sustainable Resource Management.
Matt Fairbarns has a B.Sc. in Botany from the University of Guelph (1980). He has worked on rare species and ecosystem mapping, inventory and conservation in western Canada for approximately 20 years.
Kathleen Wilkinson has a B.Sc. (Plant Science) from the University of Manitoba (1972) and an M.Sc. (Plant Ecology) from the University of Calgary (1981). She has worked as a resource planner, and for most of the last 25 years as an environmental consultant in western Canada. Kathleen has written two field guides to the native plants of Alberta.
The following collections were consulted:
- University of British Columbia herbarium
- Royal BC Museum herbarium
- University of Washington herbarium (e-mail contact with curator)