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VISITORS

Visitors are welcome to use the facilities of the Intermountain Herbarium. They are encouraged to contact the staff prior to arrival, but the Herbarium resources are generally available during the normal business hours. Visitors bringing plant material into the Herbarium should contact the staff before arrival so that we may arrange for proper insect control.

Facilities available to visitors include dissecting microscopes, floras for most of North America, standard dissecting tools, a plant dryer, and many topographic maps. Press materials are available if requested in advance and not needed by personnel associated with Utah State University.

Information about the Herbarium, including hours of operation, is posted on the World Wide

Web at http://herbarium.usu.edu/.

ACCESS TO DATA

In general, the Intermountain Herbarium is operated on the premise that information connected with its resources should be made widely available. We shall, however, ask those using such resources to acknowledge their source. Those using Herbarium resources in a "for profit" situation are reminded that donations to the Herbarium are appreciated. Information from the specimen database is not currently available over the Web; we plant to change this information once we have the necessary resources.

Detailed information about the locality of rare plants can only be obtained by direct request to the Collections Manager or Director.