Wildflower Feared Extinct Found in California

[Puglover]

A flower long thought to be extince was rediscovered in a Califonia state park more then six decades after it was last seen.

http://aolsvc.news.aol.com/news/article.adp?id=20050525191009990017&ncid=NWS00010000000001


Okay its not the Ivory Billed Woodpecker but in these dark days I'll take just about anything I can get.

[ret5hd]

1. Breaking News: Bush* Dispatches Bulldozers To CA. State Park.

[slackmaster]

2. Remember James Watt?

He was President Reagan's Secretary of the Interior.

I used to always joke about him bulldozing this or burning that or turning some beautiful place or other into a toxic waste dump. The bunch we have in power now is even worse IMO.

[Hand]

11. Yep, and Gale Norton's one of his disciples. nt

[confludemocrat]

3. Note in story that activist conservationism saved it (n/t)

[Benhurst]

6. ...

:thumbsup:

[Solly Mack]

4. Good!

[Arugula Latte]

5. Oh cool.

I grew up in the shadow of Mt. Diablo. My Dad's ashes are scattered there. It's soooo beautiful.

[Gregorian]

7. Oh great! Everything is fine now.

Yeah I'm pissed. What is it with people. Talk to the old people. Find out what it was like. I did. I had time. I was able to meet people and find out that the San Francisco bay was once boiling with seals. And from the mountain tops, the once open fields were like a patchwork quilt of colors. Even in 1960, I was able to create tunnels in the mustard weeds which covered the old farmers land, just before it was turned into a mall. It's not ok. It's dead.

edit- And don't fucking tell me I'm "negative". Fuck that! I'm realistic. I know what I see. I see cars. Exhaust. Concrete. Death. I speak about something that I left. If you want to see me being positive, come visit me on my ranch. That's where I see the birds singing. I laugh when the blackbird starts to change his habit, and begin to make his nest. But this other world is dark. It didn't have to be that way. There were people here who knew how to live. We killed them. Now we kill their land.

[blindpig]

12. people hardly perceive what you're talking about.

It's progress. It's more Stuff. It's inevitable.

What a load of shit.

Lots of folks say they're "for" the environment, might write a few checks. But that seems to have little effect on the major decisions in their lives: so they breed even though they are feckless parents, buy a house on freshly filled salt marsh and vote for the worse of two evils.

I understand. I grew up next to the great bay on the other end of the continent that is now little better than a cesspool. The wetlands that I knew the turtles in, having caught and released them multiple times, have been filled, in one case for a driving range! More recently I've seen the SC Low Country mostly ruined by expensive housing, goddamn golf courses and other tourist bullshit.

To cope I cultivate a finely honed sense of irony, not terribly satisfactory but there sure is a lot of it.

[tinfoilinfor2005]

8. Then I vote we make that the official flower of the DU,

representing hope in a dismal world.

[MisterP]

9. woohoo!

kick

[wildflower]

10. I'm right here! :)

That is good news. And a pretty flower.

The pink wildflower Eriogonom truncatum, known as the Mount Diablo buckwheat, was found in a remote section of a Contra Costa County park about 30 miles east of San Francisco. The plant resembles baby's breath used in floral arrangements.

-wildflower