BLM-CA Awards GeomorphIS Rare Plant Monitoring Survey Task Order

The US Bureau of Land Management, California Desert District, awarded a GeomorphIS-Elliott Environmental Consulting team a multi-year task order to conduct rare plant surveys within the BLM El Centro Field Office area. Survey data will be used by BLM to better understand rare plant status, distribution, and how new or ongoing impacts could influence rare plant populations. The data collected will aid in the detection of year-to-year trends in abundance, recruitment, and survivorship. The team is surveying for more than 40 special status plants (SSPs or rare plants), starting with those species and locations previously entered into the California Natural Diversity Database (CNDDB). The botany team will update past location information and add newly discovered species locations to the database.

GeomorphIS Team to Conduct Rare Plant Survey on Rocky Mountain National Park

The National Park Service awarded GeomorphIS and partner Pyramid Botanical Consultants a task order to complete a pedestrian plant survey for rare and threatened plants species within 835 acres of the Rocky Mountain National Park. The field crews will photo document the plants, acquire GPS location data, acquire density data, and flag off the plants for avoidance during a future thinning and pile burning operations. Work entails maintaining a GPS track log and generating a final written report that includes methodology and documents findings.