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--></style></head><body lang="EN-US" link="blue" vlink="purple"><div class="WordSection1"><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1f497d"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1f497d"> </span></p><div><div style="border:none;border-top:solid #e1e1e1 1.0pt;padding:3.0pt 0in 0in 0in"><p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">From:</span></b><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"> Membership [mailto:<a href="mailto:membership@calbotsoc.org">membership@calbotsoc.org</a>] <br><b>Sent:</b> Monday, December 8, 2025 2:47 PM<br><b>To:</b> <a href="mailto:amy.litt@ucr.edu">amy.litt@ucr.edu</a><br><b>Subject:</b> THURSDAY @7pm - CalBotSoc Botany Speaker: Dr. Walter Fertig</span></p></div></div><p class="MsoNormal"> </p><div align="center"><table class="MsoNormalTable" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" 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cellpadding="0" width="100%" style="width:100.0%;border-collapse:collapse;background:cover;background-size:cover"><tr><td valign="top" style="padding:0in 0in 0in 0in;min-width:100%"><table class="MsoNormalTable" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" width="100%" style="width:100.0%;border-collapse:collapse"><tr><td valign="top" style="padding:6.75pt 0in 0in 0in;max-width:100%;min-width:100%;float:left"><table class="MsoNormalTable" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="left" width="100%" style="width:100.0%;border-collapse:collapse;word-break:break-word"><tr><td width="600" valign="top" style="width:6.25in;padding:0in 0in 0in 0in"><table class="MsoNormalTable" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="left" width="100%" style="width:100.0%;border-collapse:collapse"><tr><td valign="top" style="padding:0in 13.5pt 6.75pt 13.5pt"><h3 align="center" style="text-align:center"><strong><span style="font-size:11.5pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Lucida Sans Unicode",sans-serif;color:black">THURSDAY, December 11, 2025 7-8 pm PT</span></strong><span style="font-family:"Lucida Sans Unicode",sans-serif;color:black"><br><br></span><span style="font-size:13.5pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Lucida Sans Unicode",sans-serif;color:black">Botany Speaker </span><span style="color:black"><br><br></span><strong><span style="font-size:18.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Lucida Sans Unicode",sans-serif;color:black">Walter Fertig</span></strong></h3><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:125%"><span style="font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;color:#757575"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center;line-height:125%"><strong><span style="font-size:11.5pt;line-height:125%;font-family:"Lucida Sans Unicode",sans-serif;color:black">"Gap Analysis of the Rare Plants of Washington, Utah, and Wyoming:</span></strong><b><span style="font-size:11.5pt;line-height:125%;font-family:"Lucida Sans Unicode",sans-serif;color:black"><br><strong><span style="font-family:"Lucida Sans Unicode",sans-serif">How Well Are Rare Species Being Protected?"</span></strong></span></b><span style="font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;color:#757575"></span></p></td></tr></table></td></tr></table></td></tr></table><p class="MsoNormal"> </p><table class="MsoNormalTable" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" width="100%" style="width:100.0%;border-collapse:collapse;min-width:100%"><tr><td valign="top" style="padding:6.75pt 6.75pt 6.75pt 6.75pt"><table class="MsoNormalTable" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="left" width="100%" style="width:100.0%;border-collapse:collapse"><tr><td valign="top" style="padding:0in 6.75pt 0in 6.75pt;min-width:100%;float:left"><p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center"><img width="462" id="_x0000_i1026" 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Unicode",sans-serif;color:black">TALK DESCRIPTION</span></strong></h3><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:7.5pt;margin-left:0in;line-height:125%"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;line-height:125%;font-family:"Lucida Sans Unicode",sans-serif;color:black">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.</span><span style="font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;color:#757575"></span></p></td></tr></table></td></tr></table></td></tr></table><p class="MsoNormal"> </p><table class="MsoNormalTable" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" width="100%" style="width:100.0%;border-collapse:collapse;min-width:100%"><tr><td valign="top" style="padding:0in 13.5pt 13.5pt 13.5pt"><div align="center"><table class="MsoNormalTable" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" style="background:#285513;border-collapse:collapse"><tr><td style="padding:13.5pt 13.5pt 13.5pt 13.5pt;border-radius:3px"><p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center"><span style="font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif"><a href="https://calbotsoc.us7.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c632809fa2b75323f2418bb1e&id=c6cc3bb1a4&e=b69ac08598" target="_blank" title="Information and Zoom Link"><b><span style="color:white;letter-spacing:-.4pt;text-decoration:none">Information and Zoom Link</span></b></a> </span></p></td></tr></table></div></td></tr></table><p class="MsoNormal"> </p><table class="MsoNormalTable" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" width="100%" style="width:100.0%;border-collapse:collapse;min-width:100%"><tr><td valign="top" style="padding:6.75pt 6.75pt 6.75pt 6.75pt"><table class="MsoNormalTable" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="left" width="100%" style="width:100.0%;border-collapse:collapse"><tr><td valign="top" style="padding:0in 6.75pt 0in 6.75pt;min-width:100%;float:left"><p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center"><img border="0" width="468" id="_x0000_i1027" src="https://mcusercontent.com/c632809fa2b75323f2418bb1e/images/1b7c4a35-b92b-e08f-9c85-ef0f521773df.jpg"></p></td></tr></table></td></tr></table><p class="MsoNormal"> </p><table class="MsoNormalTable" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" width="100%" style="width:100.0%;border-collapse:collapse;min-width:100%"><tr><td valign="top" style="padding:6.75pt 0in 0in 0in"><table class="MsoNormalTable" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="left" width="100%" style="width:100.0%;border-collapse:collapse"><tr><td width="600" valign="top" style="width:6.25in;padding:0in 0in 0in 0in;max-width:100%;min-width:100%;float:left"><table class="MsoNormalTable" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="left" width="100%" style="width:100.0%;border-collapse:collapse;word-break:break-word"><tr><td valign="top" style="padding:0in 13.5pt 6.75pt 13.5pt"><h3 align="center" style="text-align:center"><strong><span style="font-size:11.5pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Lucida Sans Unicode",sans-serif;color:black">BIO</span></strong></h3><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:7.5pt;margin-left:0in;line-height:125%"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;line-height:125%;font-family:"Lucida Sans Unicode",sans-serif;color:black">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.</span><span style="font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;color:#757575"></span></p></td></tr></table></td></tr></table></td></tr></table><p class="MsoNormal"> </p><table class="MsoNormalTable" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" width="100%" style="width:100.0%;border-collapse:collapse;min-width:100%"><tr><td valign="top" style="padding:0in 13.5pt 13.5pt 13.5pt"><div align="center"><table class="MsoNormalTable" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" style="background:#285513;border-collapse:collapse"><tr><td style="padding:13.5pt 13.5pt 13.5pt 13.5pt;border-radius:3px"><p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center"><span style="font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif"><a href="https://calbotsoc.us7.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c632809fa2b75323f2418bb1e&id=fbdf4aeba2&e=b69ac08598" target="_blank" title="JOIN US THURSDAY @ 7PM! 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