Endangered Plant May Have Made California Wildfires Worse
Efforts to protect an endangered plant are being pointed to as worsening the Palisades fire, but the org behind this protection says that is not the full story.
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Forage Identification: Cicer milkvetch
Cicer milkvetch is a long-lived, perennial legume with a vigorous, creeping, root system and a short, stout taproot. The stems are large, hollow and succulent. Their growth is upright when young, ...
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LA to Pay $1.9 Million for Utility Crew Damage to Endangered Plants
A damaged Braunton’s milkvetch plant lies on the ground in the Topanga State Park. The Los Angeles Department of Water and Power damaged nearly 200 of the endangered plants during a power pole ...
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How California eco-bureaucrats halted a Pacific Palisades fire safety project to save an endangered shrub
But, after an amateur botanist hiking through the park during the work saw the harm done to some of the park’s Braunton’s milkvetch — a flowered shrub with only a few thousand specimens rema ...
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Fire safety vs conservation: How one endangered plant stopped a major wildfire prevention project in California?
LA wildfire and Braunton's milkvetch (Picture credit: AP/ Los Angeles Times) In a clash between fire safety and conservation, California's eco-bureaucrats halted a wildfire prevention project near ...