[PCA] NEWS: Environmental Intrigue on the Eastern Shore

[Olivia Kwong]

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/08/21/AR2009082103808.html?hpid=topnews

Environmental Intrigue on the Eastern Shore
By Brigid Schulte
Washington Post Staff Writer
Saturday, August 22, 2009

Joe Fehrer, manager of Nassawango Nature Preserve on Maryland's Eastern 
Shore, has set the rules: No photos of the horizon or any landscape 
feature that might identify this place. No naming the back road that leads 
here.

The obsessive cone of silence around this precise location has nothing to 
do with nuclear codes or terrorist cells. The mission here is to protect a 
flower. An orchid. Arguably the one flower on Earth known to drive mere 
mortals nearly mad with desire, sending them deep into mosquito-infested 
bogs like this one, in search of ever rarer, more exotic, mysterious and 
wild species.

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