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A rare plant in Washington only grows in one place in the world: At the Hanford Reach National Monument. Researchers hope to grow more Umtanum desert buckwheat at the Cowiche Canyon Conservancy near Yakima.
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In a growing number of Northwest prisons, inmates are rearing endangered plants, butterflies, turtles and frogs for release in the wild.It started just…
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The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service is postponing a controversial decision on whether to list the Mazama pocket gopher as a threatened species in the South…
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An ankle-high plant with a funny name is stirring up controversy in southeast Washington. The federal government is considering whether to list a…
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The federal government has pushed back the possible threatened listing of two rare plants that could affect farmers in southeast Washington. Umtanum…
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Farmers in southeast Washington packed a County Commission hearing Tuesday morning in Pasco. They’re angry because a flowering desert plant called the…
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A songbird called the streaked horned lark has a curious propensity for risky neighborhoods. That's not a good quality for a bird proposed for listing as…