Rare Plant ProgramPlant Status Review ProcessIntroductionSince its beginning, the CNPS Rare Plant Program (RPP) has always taken an iterative, book-driven approach to data development and dissemination for the Inventory. This has resulted in a 5-7 year span between editions of the hardcopy Inventory. Though a perfectly sound approach in the pre-internet days, this approach is no longer adequate. The need to provide current plant status information, combined with new ways to accumulate and distribute data, has led to the possibility and the need for a continuous Inventory review process. The RPP has now shifted to such a continuous data analysis and dissemination approach. Major changes to the Inventory (i.e. additions, deletions, CNPS list changes, scientific name changes) will be continuously reviewed by CNPS, California Natural Diversity Database (CNDDB), regional Plant Status Review groups, and other experts. Once consensus is reached about a change, it will be added to a group of pending changes, which will all be implemented and disseminated on a quarterly basis. The Process
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