Tall bugbane (Cimicifuga elata) COSEWIC assessment and status report: chapter 14

The Authors

Jenifer L. Penny has a B.Sc. in biology from the University of Victoria. She has been employed by the British Columbia Conservation Data Centre as assistant program botanist since 1995. Jenifer has extensive field work in botany and has worked on status reports for three British Columbia rare vascular plants. She is also senior author for the family, Primulaceae in the Illustrated Flora of British Columbia (1999).

George W. Douglas has an M.Sci. (Forestry) from the University of Washington and a Ph.D (Botany) from the University of Alberta, Edmonton. George has worked with rare plants for over 20 years. He was senior author of The Rare Plants of the Yukon (1981), co-authored The Rare Plants of British Columbia (1985) and was senior author of the Rare Native Plants of British Columbia (1998). He is also the senior editor for the Illustrated Flora of British Columbia and has been the program botanist for the British Columbia Conservation Data Centre since its inception in 1991. George has written or co-written 15 COSEWIC status reports during this period.

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