Celebrating Wildflowers - Rare Plant Conservation Success Stories

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	Rare Plant Conservation Success Stories The Forest Service and its partners and volunteers have had many successes in restoring and recovering rare plants on our national forests and grasslands across the country. We invite you to explore these tales with happy endings. Eastern Region Contributing to the Recovery of Leafy Prairie-Clover in Northeastern Illinois by Growing Plants from Seed and Planting in Restored Dolomite Prairie Habitat Discovery of New Hart's Tongue Fern Population Hiawatha Native Plant Program Successfully Grows Rare Downy Sunflower Prescribed Burning Promotes Growth of Buffalo Clover Protecting Running Buffalo Clover (Trifolium stoloniferum) on the Wayne National Forest and Adjacent Private Land Recovery of Robbins' Cinquefoil - A Partnership Success Restoration of Douglas Hawthorn (Crataegus douglasii) in the Great Lakes Region Seek and You Might Find! U.S. Forest Service Botanists Locate and Work to Protect a New Population of Federally Threatened Fassett's Locoweed (Oxytropis campestris var. chartacea) Understanding and Conserving Appalachian Jacob’s Ladder (Polemonium vanbruntiae) Intermountain Region Uinta National Forest Introduction Program to Recover Clay Phacelia, Phacelia argillacea, One of Utah’s Most Endangered Species Pacific Northwest Region Conservation of Greenman's Desert Parsley Ongoing Efforts to Recover Mirabilis macfarlanei, MacFarlane's Four-O’clock Sisyrinchium sarmentosum (pale blue-eyed grass or mountain pale blue-eyed grass) Conservation Efforts The Frozen Garden: Securing Seeds for the Future - The Berry Botanic Garden and the U.S. Forest Service Pacific Northwest Region Wenatchee Mountains Checker-mallow Recovery Pacific Southwest Region Who knew? Newly Delimited California Sensitive Plant Gains Protection from Rock Barrier and Informative Sign Tahoe yellow cress (Rorippa subumbellata Roll.) Recovery on the Lake Tahoe Basin Management Unit Rocky Mountain Region Conserving Forkleaved Moonwort in the High Mountains of Colorado Filling Knowledge Gaps in the Ecology of Degener's Beardtongue, a Local Endemic Plant of South-Central Colorado Southern Region Kentucky Lady’s slipper Orchid Restoration Project Uses Local Know How on Kisatchie National Forest Lands Update! Restoration of a Rare Lady’s Slipper Orchid on the Kisatchie National Forest, Louisiana Restoration of Buck Creek Serpentine Barrens - Tusquitee Ranger District, Nantahala National Forest Southwestern Region Botanists Find New Homes for the Holy Ghost Ipomopsis
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