Smithsonian Magazine24d
Meet the ‘Wooly Devil,’ the First New Plant Genus Discovered in a National Park Since 1976
A volunteer spotted the tiny, fuzzy plant with maroon florets while exploring the remote northern corner of Big Bend National ...
The Olympian (TCA) on MSN2mon
Rare plants damaged at Death Valley dunes for ‘a few minutes of joyriding,’ rangers say
Among those plants is the Eureka Dunes’ evening-primrose, which is also only found in Death Valley, NPS said. The plant was removed from the endangered species list seven years ago with “the ...
Popular Science26d
New species of fuzzy sunflower found by national park volunteer
A photo uploaded to popular citizen science social network iNaturalist is a snapshot of the first new genus and species of plant ... was found in Death Valley National Park. Breakthroughs ...
Center for Biological Diversity2y
SAVING THE SAN JACINTO VALLEY CROWNSCALE
In 2007 the Center filed a notice of intent to sue the Bush administration for its failure to properly protect the San Jacinto Valley crownscale and other species, and the next year we sued over the ...