I'm a botanist at the Nevada Division of Natural Heritage, a state government agency within the Nevada Department of Conservation and Natural Resources. We're part of the NatureServe network and are responsible for compiling and distributing information on Nevada's rare, threatened, and endemic species of plants and wildlife. iNaturalist is a valuable source of information for us on species presence, range, and status.

I care deeply about documenting and conserving plant biodiversity in the Great Basin and Mojave, and I'm grateful to everyone who has taken the time to submit their observations of Nevada rare plants, as well as the hardworking experts who are active in identifying these species. If you would like to learn about Nevada rare plants, check out our Species Explorer tool: http://species.heritage.nv.gov/

You can help us out by joining our projects:

Track List - https://www.inaturalist.org/projects/nevada-rare-species-tracking-list-ndnh

Watch List - https://www.inaturalist.org/projects/nevada-rare-species-watch-list-ndnh

It's helpful when people choose to "trust" our projects with their obscured coordinates. Exact locations are essential to our ability to map rare species by following up on your observations and incorporating them into our databases, which are used in conservation decision-making.

I grew up in Las Vegas and studied geography at the University of Nevada, Reno. I have worked with plants and wildlife in Nevada (and occasionally adjacent parts of California, Arizona, and Utah) since 2018 for educational and research institutions, nonprofits, and state and federal agencies. I'm a big fan of western Nevada, limestone, and Eriogonum subg. Eucycla. When I'm not doing field botany, I'm a GIS/database/Python/R data nerd.

Please feel free to contact me here or at psilbey@heritage.nv.gov if you have any questions, concerns, interesting finds, or opportunities to collaborate.

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