Imperiled Species Work Group

(updated October 8, 2002)

Work Group: SCB Guidebook on Imperiled Species of the Colorado Plateau

Issue: Native plants and animals of the region threatened by human impacts

Work Group Leaders: Tony Povilitis, povilitis@huemul.net (520) 384-0248; JoAnne Kirchner, Jkirchner@EECsv.com Please contact either of these individuals to participate.

Goal: To produce an attractive guide to species in danger of disappearing from the region, their whereabouts, life history, ecology, threats, and measures and strategies to restore them.

Purpose: To galvanize public and private support for troubled native species and help focus conservationists working to conserve the region’s biodiversity.

Participants include: Daniela Roth, Sabra Schwartz, John Anderson, Monica Hansen for vascular plants; Matthew Bowker for nonvascular plants; Neil Cobb for invertebrates; Tom Fleischner, Christopher Putnam for birds; Joanne Kirchner, Tony Povilitis for fish; Larry Stevens, David Mikesic for reptiles and amphibians; JJ Wynne, David Mattson for mammals.

How you can still get involved: a) join one of the groups for writing species accounts; b) volunteer as a specialist to review the lists of species to be included and subsequent species accounts; c) join the project as an artist/illustrator or contribute photographs; d) suggest sources of project funding.