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Glen Clifton, B.S.
Senior Botanist
Mr. Clifton is a widely respected field botanist and taxonomist with 27 years' professional consulting experience. He has conducted floristic and rare plant studies throughout the United States, with an emphasis on California.
Mr. Clifton conducted a baseline floristic inventory of 100,000 acres of U.S. Navy land at Fallon Naval Air Station in Churchill County, Nevada. As part of the Lucerne Valley to Big Bear Valley transmission line and substation project, Mr. Clifton surveyed for special-status plants, developed a mitigation plan and prepared NEPA/CEQA documentation. Mr. Clifton conducted rare plant surveys and plant community inventories and mapping along the Tuscarora Pipeline Project from Malin, Oregon, to Tracy, Nevada over a 5-year period. During the course of these surveys, he discovered seven plant taxa previously undescribed in California. Most recently, Mr. Clifton conducted special status plant and noxious weed surveys on approximately 10,000 acres of the Plumas National Forest.
Mr. Clifton is a recognized expert on and prolific collector of the flora of California and the western United States. His extensive field surveys and collections have resulted in the discovery of several previously undescribed taxa, including two species of Draba (one in the South Snake Range, Nevada and one in the south Warner Mountains, California) an Erythronium (Plumas County, California), Streptanthus shastensis, and the recently described Shasta snow-wreath (Neviusia cliftonii) in Shasta and Siskiyou counties, California. At present, he is completing a flora of Plumas County, the Plumas National Forest, and the surrounding region in northern California.
