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Population Monitoring Of Beaver Mountain Groundsel, Autumn Gudmundsen, Loreen Allphin, Madison Huie, Steve Flinders
Population Monitoring Of Beaver Mountain Groundsel, Autumn Gudmundsen, Loreen Allphin, Madison Huie, Steve Flinders
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• Beaver Mountain groundsel, Packera castoreus, is a rare flowering plant, endemic to the Tushar Mountains of Utah (fig.1 & 2).
• P. castoreus has been classified as high priority for monitoring and conservation by the Utah Native Plant Society1.
• The plants in the Tushars are some of the least studied in Utah.
• There have been conservation concerns for rare alpine species recently due to increased threats. Threats to this species include:
• Grazing from large ungulates (mountain goats, deer, & elk)2
• Human impacts, especially hiking1
• Climate change1
• To better understand …