BRIT staff and Research Associates are involved in a number of floristic projects.
In the central Edwards Plateau, covering 550 acres in Blanco County. About 550 species of vascular plants are documented as growing within the park area. Field work done primarily April-October 2002.
Roger Sanders, under contract with The Nature Conservancy.
In the High Plains of the Texas panhandle, together including about 46,000 acres (counting the fluctuating area of water) and stretching through about 25 miles (from one end to the other) of Hutchinson, Moore, and Potter counties. More than 500 species have been documented to occur within this panhandle parkland. Field work was done primarily in April-October 2002.
Guy Nesom and Robert O'Kennon, under contract with The Nature Conservancy.
In Wise County of north central Texas, under administration of the U.S. Forest Service. This area covers about 30,000 acres of woods and prairie and includes five major lakes and many ponds - 70% is sandy woods of the West Cross Timbers, 25% Grand Prairie, 5% East Cross Timbers.
Bob O'Kennon and Caren MacLemore.
In portions of Cooke, Denton, and Grayson counties of north-central Texas. The park includes a total of 5,850 acres, with a lake surrounded by two state park units (Isle du Bois and Johnson Branch), six satellite parks, as well as Wildlife Management Areas, wetlands, and waterfowl sanctuaries. The lake itself is a 29-acre Corps of Engineers impoundment on the Elm Fork of the Trinity River.
Bob O'Kennon and informal BRIT research associate Jeff Quayle.
Roger Sanders has done vegetational surveys and mapping of several state parks over the last 4 years: Lake Bob Sandlin State Park (1999), Possum Kingdom Lake State Park (1999), Cedar Hill State Park (2000), Cooper Lake Sate Park (2001), Lake Houston State Park (2004), and Village Creek State Park (2004).
Bob O'Kennon has long-term interests and data collection for Lake Mineral Wells State Park and Meridian State Park, and he is assembling data for an account of the flora of Gillespie County in the Hill Country.
Long-term and extensive collecting in Alabama by Bob Kral makes the VDB herbarium highly significant in the development of a floristic account of that state. Kral is part of a committee now constructing a detailed checklist and atlas of the plants of Alabama.
Jim Peck (University of Arkansas at Little Rock) has spent time at BRIT in 2002/2003 checking Arkansas records in connection with his part in the Flora of Arkansas project. BRIT has significant holdings of Arkansas collections mainly because of the large number of collections by Delzie Demaree deposited at BRIT.
Michael and Barbara MacRoberts (Bog Research; LSU-Shreveport Herbarium) have studied floristics and community ecology of the West Gulf Coastal Plain since 1988. The region includes National Forest lands and interesting bogs and prairies.
