[PCA] NEWS: All Fired Up

[Olivia Kwong]

http://www2.journalnow.com/content/2009/jan/22/self-taught-botanist-lobbies-for-californias-plant/

All Fired Up
Self-taught botanist lobbies for California's plant diversity
By Joe Mozingo
LOS ANGELES TIMES
Published: January 22, 2009

Rick Halsey is in search of senile shrubs.

He rolls up California Highway 79 in his Chevy pickup across the high 
tablelands of eastern San Diego County. Past a little adobe chapel from 
the Mexican era, he turns onto an unpaved road. He bumps along in low gear 
as the road rises into the granite mountains as a brilliant sliver of 
scarified Earth, passing through gnarled stands of manzanita, red shank 
and chamise.

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