Penstemon Absarokensis Evert (Absaroka Range Beardtongue): a Technical Conservation Assessment
Penstemon absarokensis Evert (Absaroka Range beardtongue): A Technical Conservation Assessment Prepared for the USDA Forest Service, Rocky Mountain Region, Species Conservation Project December 29, 2003 Brenda Beatty, William Jennings, and Rebecca Rawlinson CDM, 1331 17th Street, Suite 1100, Denver, Colorado 80202 Peer Review Administered by Center for Plant Conservation Beatty, B.L., W.F. Jennings, and R.C. Rawlinson (2003, December 29). Penstemon absarokensis Evert (Absaroka Range beardtongue): a technical conservation assessment. [Online]. USDA Forest Service, Rocky Mountain Region. Available: http://www.fs.fed.us/r2/projects/scp/assessments/penstemonabsarokensis.pdf [date of access]. ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS We acknowledge several botanists and land management specialists for providing helpful input, including David Anderson, Beth Burkhart, Erwin Evert, Joe Hicks, Kent Houston, Vincent Tepedino, and an anonymous reviewer. Natural Heritage Programs and herbaria within USFS Region 2 supplied current occurrence records of this species from their databases and collections. We thank Walter Fertig and the Wyoming Natural Diversity Database for permission to use their Penstemon absarokensis images. Funding for this document was provided by U.S. Forest Service, Rocky Mountain Region (Region 2) contract 53-82X9-2-0112. AUTHORS’ BIOGRAPHIES Brenda L. Beatty is a senior ecologist and environmental scientist with CDM Federal Programs Corporation. Ms. Beatty has over 22 years of professional experience in the environmental industry and has provided technical support for wetlands delineations, ecological surveys, threatened and endangered species surveys, ecological sampling, and ecological risk assessments throughout the country. Her experience in ecology has been used to develop species assessments, characterize biotic communities, identify sensitive ecosystems, estimate wildlife use areas, identify potential habitat for threatened and endangered species, and locate threatened and endangered species.
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