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Roy Buck, PhD.
Senior Botanist
Dr. Buck has worked in environmental consulting as a botanist since 1983, conducting rare and endangered plant species surveys and other botanical studies throughout California as well as in Nevada and Utah. He is an expert on the flora of California, including the special-status flora, and has extensive field-based knowledge of California and Intermountain region plant communities as well as familiarity with standard classification schemes for California vegetation. Dr. Buck's experience includes special-status plant surveying, quantitative vegetation sampling, analysis of project impacts to sensitive botanical resources, and development of effective mitigation measures. He is familiar with federal and state laws and regulations pertaining to special-status plants and sensitive habitats. His geographic experience is broad, and includes especially the central and southern Coast Ranges of California, the San Joaquin Valley, the Sierra Nevada, northeastern California, southern California, and the Great Basin. He also has strong writing and editing skills, and has authored numerous technical botanical survey reports. Recently, he co-authored publications describing two new species, Streptanthus longisiliiquus and Sidalcea gigantea, from the northern Sierra Nevada and southern Cascades in northern California. Dr. Buck holds a B.A. in Biology and Environmental Studies from the University of California, Santa Cruz, and a Ph.D. from the University of California, Berkeley. His dissertation topic was the systematics of the mustard family genus Caulanthus.
Dr. Buck's specific project experience includes special-status plant surveys and other botanical studies on projects ranging in area from a few acres to thousands of acres. His large-scale project experience includes serving as Principal Botanist on 11 rare plant and noxious weed surveys, ranging in size from 1,300 to 9,400 acres, on the Plumas and Modoc National Forests in northern California. He has conducted other large survey projects for clients such as the California Department of Parks and Recreation, California Department of Fish and Game, Midpeninsula Open Space District, and the U.S. Navy. He has conducted numerous other botanical surveys of various sizes for private clients and government agencies throughout California, including special-status plant surveys, baseline botanical inventories, special-status plant population monitoring, and post-construction botanical monitoring.
