Western Ecological Services, Inc.

Frank Smith is a botanist and the principal of Western Ecological Services. He has conducted rare plant and vegetation monitoring inventories in Arizona, California, Colorado, Kansas, Nevada, New Mexico, Oklahoma, Oregon, Texas, Utah, Washington, and Wyoming. Mr. Smith has also traveled to Armenia and South Africa to conduct vegetation studies.

Mr. Smith is also skilled in conducting field wildlife studies.

Botany

Frank Smith has discovered eight new taxa. Pictured here is Viola frank-smithii (common name Frank-Smith's violet). This violet is endemic to Logan Canyon, in northern Utah, where it grows on dolomite walls between 5,000 and 6,000 feet elevation. It flowers in early June.

Ash Meadows National Wildlife Refuge

Mr. Smith has considerable botanical experience at the Ash Meadows National Widlife Refuge, in the Amargosa Valley approximately 90 miles northwest of Las Vegas:

Field Wildlife Experience

• Raptor and eagle surveys and monitoring
• Migratory bird surveys
• Trapping and telemetry of Brachylagus idanhoensis (Pygmy rabbits)
• Centrocercus urophasianus (Greater sage grouse) lek surveys
• Small mammal trapping
• Gopherus agassizii (Desert tortoise) surveys