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Article: The search for Coryphantha ramillosa.
- Article from:
- Endangered Species Bulletin
- Article date:
- July 1, 2002
- Author:
CopyrightCOPYRIGHT 2002 U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service. This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan. All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group. (Hide copyright information)
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On an early fall morning in 1997 in west Texas, our small group was eating breakfast at the Basin Lodge restaurant in the Chisos Mountains of Big Bend National Park. Surrounded by spectacular views of the limestone cliffs and crags, lush with juniper, pines, and grasses, we watched the pale orange of the early sun angle against the rocks, delicately spotlighting each plant. We had driven down from the Desert Botanical Garden in Phoenix, Arizona, to survey the single known occurrence of a rare cactus at the park. Although we'd visited the site on several previous occasions, we were now intending to set up permanent monitoring transects and establish a species seedbank.
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