GeomorphIS Issued a 5-Year Task Order to Conduct Botany Surveys on Lincoln National Forest, New Mexico

The U.S. Forest Service (USFS) has issued a GeomorphIS-Elliott Environmental Consulting team a task order to conduct botanical surveys on the Lincoln National Forest (LNF), New Mexico. The contract will cover a variety of projects for each of the next five years, on three Ranger Districts across the LNF. Both large watershed scale planning units (i.e., greater than 10,000 acres) and small-scale planning units (less than 10,000 acres) may be assigned for botanical surveys for a suite of target rare plant species, including 6 federally-listed and 33 other rare plant species. The Scope of Work consists of completing rare plant survey tasks in accordance with three possible survey protocols that include an intuitive controlled survey for all species or species specific protocols for the Kuenzler’s hedgehog cactus and the Sacramento Mountains thistle.