Rare Plant Conservation in Wisconsin

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Presenter: Kevin Doyle – Botanist with the Bureau of Natural Heritage Conservation Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources

Program: Rare Plant Conservation in Wisconsin

This talk will provide an overview of different types of rare plant conservation projects the Wisconsin DNR is working with, including status assessments, hand pollination, outplantings, assisted migration, and citizen science.

Speaker Bio: Kevin Doyle is a botanist with the Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources. He received a bachelor’s degree in conservation biology from UW-Madison and a master’s in plant biology from the University of Texas at Austin. In his role as DNR botanist for the last 12 years he has conducted botanical and ecological surveys across Wisconsin, working in almost every county in the state. He focuses on rare plants in particular and started the Rare Plant Monitoring Program in 2013 to train volunteers to search for and collect data on rare plant populations to inform conservation efforts.