At-risk Desert Flowering Plant Could Impact Lands Bill

Wed, Aug 14, 2019 (6:09 p.m.)

The Center for Biological Diversity, a critic of the county’s aspirational development expansion, submitted a petition today to the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service to add the at-risk Las Vegas bearpoppy to the Endangered Species List, with the hope that federal protection for the flowering plant could impact a future lands bill.

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