OLLI 1025 - From Peaks to Patterns: Insights From the Burke Herbarium’s 50 Peaks Project Lecture
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Course Description
This presentation explores the Burke Herbarium’s legacy and its innovative 50 Peaks Project, which documents plant diversity across Washington’s highest summits. We’ll begin with an overview of the Herbarium’s mission and history, then dive into how the 50 Peaks Project gathers and analyzes alpine plant data. By summarizing key findings and visualizing species distributions, we’ll uncover the environmental and geographic factors shaping Washington’s mountain flora and discuss how this research contributes to broader conservation and ecological understanding.
This Zoom lecture is available to OLLI-UW members only.
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