[PCA] NEWS: Recovery plan for endangered seablite
Olivia Kwong
plant at plantconservation.org
Fri Mar 26 20:50:10 CDT 2010
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2010/03/21/HO9N1CB0SN.DTL
Recovery plan for endangered seablite
Joe Eaton,Ron Sullivan
Sunday, March 21, 2010
Few non-botanists would give a California seablite plant a second glance.
Suaeda californica is 2 feet tall, shrubby, with gray-green needlelike
leaves and inconspicuous green flowers. What makes it special is its
rarity. Listed by the federal government as an endangered species, it's
historically known only from San Francisco Bay and Morro Bay. The last
local population had vanished by the 1960s, a casualty of bay-fill
development. Now the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service and local agencies are
trying to bring it back, one of five focal species in an ambitious
recovery plan for tidal-marsh plants and animals of the central California
coast.
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