Acknowledgments 



I thank the following Kootenai National Forest botanists for suggesting collecting sites, accompanying me in the 

 field, and providing specimens and site infonnadon: Toby Spribille, Mike Lolley, Kara Hungate, and Mike 

 Arvidsoa Thanks to Dale Vitt, University of Alberta, Edmonton; Patricia Eckel, Buflfelo Museum of Science, 

 Bufialo, New York ; William Weber, University of Colorado; Bruce Allen, Missouri Botanical Garden; and Ame 

 Frisvoll, University of Trondheim for identifying difficult taxa Thanks to Dan Leavell (Kootenai National Forest) 

 and Bonnie Heidel (Montana Natural Heritage Program) for coordinating the project and promoting tiie study of 

 mosses and other plants on the Kootenai National Forest 



