Name: Michael Stein

Affiliation: Turnstone Environmental Consultants

Position: Botanist

Web site: https://www.inaturalist.org/people/steinm

Background: I am a botanist and wetland scientist at Turnstone Environmental Consultants in Portland, OR. Since receiving my Bachelor's in Biology at Lewis & Clark College, I've pursued work with the Great Basin Institute and Portland State University conducting sagebrush steppe and riparian vegetation surveys across the states of California, Nevada, Oregon, and Washington. In my role at Turnstone I routinely perform wetland delineations, rare plant and noxious weed surveys, and wetland and riparian assessments for clients across the Pacific Northwest. I'm a botanist by trade and passion, if I'm not conducting regulatory surveys related to the flora of the Pacific Northwest, I'm likely in the field searching for species of conservation interest, disjunct populations of flora, and narrow-range endemics.