The Vermont Fish and Wildlife Department announced in a statementWednesday that its botanists have confirmed a population of small whorled pogonia, which is protected as threatened under the Federal Endangered Species Act and has not been seen in Vermont in 120 years.
The Vermont Fish and Wildlife Department announced in a statementWednesday that its botanists have confirmed a population of small whorled pogonia, which is protected as threatened under the Federal Endangered Species Act and has not been seen in Vermont in 120 years.
The state will now work with Winooski Valley to search for further clusters of the plant in its conservation region and monitor the population to aid its growth, it said.
Kinda boring looking. Come on! Let's have some color!
As rare as an honest politician!
ReplyDeleteThey said the same thing about the Ghost Orchid down in Florida, but it's not that rare, you just have to go looking for it.
ReplyDeleteI have them by the thousands here on the Eco-Homestead . You wanna buy a hundred ?
ReplyDeleteAnother grift to fund a larger VFWD dept. budget while cordoning off large swaths of public land.
ReplyDelete...and a new push to transform private property into "Federally Protected Eco-Systems" begins in 3...2...1...
ReplyDeleteWhat a relief. That'll save the world.
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