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• 2024
• Washington Post. Death Valley is alive this year. A super bloom is the latest sign. Link
• LA Times Plants. Why aren’t wildflowers bursting everywhere? Don’t expect a superbloom. Link
• 2023
• NY Times. She’s Out to Save Rare Wildflowers, but First She Has to Find Them. Link
• Washington Post. Bloom or bust. Historic rains are fueling another California super bloom — but it’s under threat. Link
• Salon. California’s rare flowering “superbloom” at risk of being trampled to oblivion by unruly tourists. Link
• The Guardian. California town hopes to put tourists off the scent as another super bloom looms. Link
• 2022
• Cronkite News. Extinction is forever: Seed banks build biodiversity in the face of climate change. Link
• 2021
• Los Angeles Times. California builds a ‘Noah’s Ark’ to protect wildlife from extinction by fire and heat. Link
• Wired Magazine. The lithium mine versus the wildflower. Link
• Vogue. Why California’s Super Bloom Is Under Siege. Link
• 2020
• High County News Rare Nevada wildflower diminished by 40% in one weekend Link
• New Scientist. Rare plant may prevent the first lithium quarry in the US from opening. Link
• 2019
• The Nevada Independent. Conservation group seeks to protect rare buckwheat near proposed lithium mine. Link
• LAist. Joshua Tree National Park just got 4,500 acres bigger, and the flowers are poppin’. Link
• 2018
• Desert Sun. Once threatened, this rare plant is recovering in the San Jacinto Mountains. Link
• 2017
• Los Angeles Times. Native flowers aren’t the only plants in ‘super-bloom’ this spring — nasty weeds have also flourished. Link
• 2015
• Bay Area News Group. Efforts growing to preserve state’s threatened plant species. Link

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