Prototype quillwort (Isoetes prototypus) COSEWIC assessment and status report: chapter 14
Biographical Summary of Report Writers
James P. Goltz has a Ph.D. in veterinary pathology and works as Manager of Veterinary Laboratory Services for the New Brunswick Dept. of Agriculture, Fisheries and Aquaculture. He has been an active field botanist for nearly 30 years, and has a special interest in pteridophytes, orchids, emergents, rare and endangered species, and the flora of Muskoka District (in Ontario). He co-authored with Dr. D.M. Britton the paper describing Prototype Quillwort, Isoetes prototypus, as a species new to science, based on collections that they made of this species in New Brunswick. Dr. Goltz has also published reports on the discovery of Curly-grass Fern in New Brunswick, Southern Beech Fern in Muskoka, and European Twayblade in Wellington County, Ontario, and revised the ORCHIDACEAE section in Hinds’ second edition of the Flora of New Brunswick.
Gart Bishop holds a B.Sc. and has been actively working as a field botanist since 1994. As a partner in B & B Botanical, he has conducted inventories and made collections of vascular plants at a variety of sites in New Brunswick, Nova Scotia and Maine, including provincial and national parks. He has participated in surveys for several endangered plant species including Pedicularis furbishiae, Aster anticostensis and Listera australis, assessing their population size, recording associated species, determining habitat requirements and developing search guidelines.
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