Prototype quillwort (Isoetes prototypus) COSEWIC assessment and status report: chapter 12

Acknowledgements and Authorities Contacted

Acknowledgements

The writers offer their sincere thanks and profound gratitude to the following persons, agencies and institutions for generous assistance with the preparation of this status report:

  • Bev Benedict – use of Connell Memorial Herbarium facilities at University of New Brunswick, borrowing specimens from other herbaria.
  • Bowater Inc. – access to private freehold.
  • Bruce Bagnell – bryophyte identification.
  • Sean Blaney, Atlantic Canada Conservation Data Centre – telephone consultation.
  • Donald M. Britton – maps, location information and site descriptions, advice, telephone consultation, specimen identification, information on sites surveyed in Nova Scotia.
  • Daniel F. Brunton – provided photocopies of specimens; consultation by telephone and e-mail; review of report; also telephone discussion with E. Haber.
  • Dr. Christopher Campbell – information on specimens from Maine
  • Stephen R. Clayden, New Brunswick Museum – photocopies of papers.
  • Steve Currie and Pam Seymour, New Brunswick Department of Natural Resources – lake survey and data report for site 10.
  • Sean Doucette – suggestions on potential sites for I. prototypus.
  • Clifford Drysdale – information on Kejimkujik National Park.
  • Mark Elderkin, Nova Scotia Department of Natural Resources – advice, contacts.
  • Bill Gawley, Acadia National Park – lake survey data and biological data for site 13.
  • Dedreic Grecian and Canadian Forces Base (CFB) Gagetown – assistance with field work, including access and transportation to CFB Gagetown.
  • Linda Gregory, Acadia National Park – assistance with field research at site 13, rare plant status reports for Acadia National Park.
  • Dr. Erich Haber – guidance, instruction and support.
  • Ralph Heighton and Jason LeBlanc, Nova Scotia Department of Agriculture and Fisheries – information and reports on Nova Scotia lake surveys, suggestions on potential sites for I. prototypus.
  • Ruth Hersey – photocopies of specimens from Acadia University Herbarium.
  • R. James Hickey – telephone consultation.
  • Kelly Honeyman – assistance with field research.
  • J.D. Irving Ltd. – landowner permission to access potential sites in New Brunswick.
  • Carole Ann Lacroix – photocopies of specimen label data from University of Guelph (Ontario Agricultural College) herbarium.
  • Mike MacKeigan and Ron Delaney, Cape Breton Regional Municipality – permission to survey Pottle Lake, lake survey data for Pottle Lake.
  • Earl MacKinnon, Cape Breton Regional Municipality – guided tour of access point to Pottle Lake, assistance with required sanitation procedures.
  • Dr. David McCorquodale and Chris Thomson – suggestions on potential sites for I. prototypus, advice on site access.
  • Paul Melanson and René Lebrun – scuba diving exploration of site 10, underwater video and photography.
  • Elizabeth Mills – maintaining specimens in growth chambers, laboratory support and advice.
  • National Research Council – permission to use scanning electron micrographs.
  • Robyn and John O’Keefe, and Carl and Karen Duivenvoorden – landowner permission to access site 10.
  • Garnet Rushton – accommodation while in Economy region of Nova Scotia.
  • Dwayne Sabine, Department of Natural Resources – assistance with field exploration for Isoetes in New Brunswick, Isoetesspecimens, aerial photographs, suggestions on potential sites for I. prototypus.
  • Mary Sabine, Kathryn Collet and Peter Cronin, New Brunswick Department of Natural Resources – suggestions on potential sites for I. prototypus.
  • Mike Shchepanek – information on specimens at Canadian Museum of Nature herbarium.
  • St. Anne-Nackawic Ltd. – permission to access potential sites in New Brunswick.
  • W. Carl Taylor– telephone consultation. 
  • Dr. Maureen Toner and Mike Sullivan, New Brunswick Department of Natural Resources – permit to collect I. prototypus in New Brunswick, use of Department vehicle for field research in New Brunswick, comments on status report.
  • Jill Weber – information on techniques used to survey and estimate I. prototypus at Bubble Pond.
  • Emily Wood – photocopies of specimens from Gray Herbarium.
  • Don Vail – use of I.prototypus photograph.

Funding for the preparation of this status report was provided by the Canadian Wildlife Service, Environment Canada and the Nova Scotia and New Brunswick Departments of Natural Resources.

Authorities Contacted

Amirault, D. – Wildlife Biologist - Species at Risk Program, Canadian Wildlife Service, Sackville NB

Blaney, S.  – Atlantic Canada Conservation Data Centre.

Britton, D.M. – Geneticist, researcher, and expert on Isoetes and other pteridophytes

Brunton, D.F. – Biological consultant, field biologist, researcher and expert on Isoetes and other pteridophytes.

Drysdale, C. – Park Ecologist, Kejimkujik National Park.

Elderkin, M.F. – Species at Risk Biologist, Wildlife Division, NS Dept. of Natural Resources.

Hickey, R.J. – Isoetes researcher.

LeBlanc, J. – Fisheries Biologist, Inland Fisheries Division, NS Dept. of Agriculture & Fisheries.

Taylor, W.C. – Isoetes researcher.

Toner, M. – Biologist, Species at Risk Program, Dept. of Natural Resources, Fish and Wildlife Branch. 

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