[PCA] NEWS: Recovery plan for endangered seablite

[Olivia Kwong]

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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