New Updates to the California Rare Plant Inventory: version 9.5

After leaving Rincon Consultants in 2022, I continued to collaborate with the California Native Plant Society (CNPS)along with two colleagues, Andrew Walter of The Jones Payne Group, and Mark Naftzger of Studio Simple, to update the the CNPS Online Inventory of Rare Plants, that we later renamed the Rare Plant Inventory. In January, 2023, CNPS to announced a series of new features and updates to California’s online inventory of rare plants. The Rare Plant Inventory (RPI) is a widely-used resource guiding rare plant protection, conservation planning, land acquisition, and management in California. The updated 9.5 version of the RPI added a suite of powerful new search capabilities and more