[PCA] NEWS: Environmental Intrigue on the Eastern Shore
Olivia Kwong
plant at plantconservation.org
Sat Aug 22 07:48:34 CDT 2009
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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