
ESA001-00162
Before a highway is widened here, botanists are dispatched to instruct workers on how to safeguard the threatened western prairie fringed orchid. On rare occasions roads have been diverted to save imperiled vegetation, whose advocates complain that the ESA grants far less protection to plants than to animals.
Keywords
- blue sky
- botanists
- botany
- Flower
- fringed
- full length
- grassland
- horizonal
- low angle view
- obscured face
- orchid
- people in background
- Plant
- plantanthera
- platanthera praeclara
- praeclara
- Prairie
- protect
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- side view
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- three people
- Western
- Western prairie fringed orchid
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