Montana's Native Plants

Join us in watching the Montana Library Network Virtual Program Montana's Native Plants with Andrea Pipp, a Program Botanist for the Montana Natural Heritage Program. 

Every wildlife job required studying habitat and Andrea became more and more interested in vascular plants, then intrigued by mosses, dabbled with fungi, and really took a liken to the lichen communities. Her master's study evaluated if canopy lichen biomass, species diversity, and community composition was more influenced by the age of a forest or by the structure of that forest. She has been certified as a Lichenologist for Macrolichens of the Pacific Northwest since 2001.

Andrea has 29 years of botany and wildlife experience working in 12 states for the federal, state, and private sectors. Her past project work was focused on issues relative to forestry, stream and wetland restoration, transportation, residential development, and oil/gas development. Her specialties are in vascular plant (native/exotic), lichen, and bryophyte identification, surveying, and monitoring, wetland delineation, resource impact assessment, and technical writing. She serves on the Board of the Northwest Scientific Association and is a member of the Montana Native Plant Society, Friends of the UM Herbarium, Northwest Lichenologists, and American Bryological / Lichenological Society.

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