[Ccb_faculty] FW: THURSDAY @7pm - CalBotSoc Botany Speaker: Dr. Walter Fertig

Mon Dec 8 15:54:30 PST 2025

THURSDAY @7pm - CalBotSoc Botany Speaker: Dr. Walter Fertig

*From:* Membership [mailto:membership at calbotsoc.org]
*Sent:* Monday, December 8, 2025 2:47 PM
*To:* amy.litt at ucr.edu
*Subject:* THURSDAY @7pm - CalBotSoc Botany Speaker: Dr. Walter Fertig

*THURSDAY, December 11, 2025 7-8 pm PT*

Botany Speaker

*Walter Fertig*

*"Gap Analysis of the Rare Plants of Washington, Utah, and Wyoming:*
*How Well Are Rare Species Being Protected?"*

*TALK DESCRIPTION*

Permanently protected areas, such as National parks, Wilderness Areas, and
nature preserves are often selected because of their aesthetic appeal or
historical and recreational value to humans, rather than their biological
attributes.  As a result, there can be a mismatch between protected lands
and where important elements of biological diversity occur, especially
rarer species with limited ranges or specialized habitats.  Gap Analysis is
an analytical tool developed in the late 1980s to assess how well species
or vegetation communities are represented in the network of protected lands
in a state or nation (i.e. “gaps”).  Gap studies can be valuable to
identify particular species and habitat types that are absent or
inadequately represented in the existing system of protected areas to then
identify new protected areas that might fill those holes.  I will discuss
the use of gap methods to assess the protected status of rare plants in
Washington, the entire flora of Wyoming, and the Colorado Plateau of Utah
using various data sources and how these methods might be applied to other
geographic areas.

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*BIO*

Walter Fertig is the collections manager of the Marion Ownbey Herbarium at
Washington State University in Pullman, WA. Previously, he was the
state botanist for the Wyoming and Washington natural heritage programs,
database manager for the Arizona State University Herbarium, and had
a botanical/ecological consulting business in Kanab, Utah.  He has a PhD
and Masters in botany from the University of Wyoming and a BS
in botany from Oregon State University. His research interests are on
phytogeography, conservation botany, and floristics.

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