
PLA010-00001
The rare salt wort, a plant that only exists in the rare inland salt marshes of northern Lancaster County, Nebraska. Its habitat is being threatened by development. The wort is part of the same ecosystem as the Salt Creek tiger beetle, a candidate for a federal endangered species listing.
Keywords
- Development
- Habitat loss
- Lancaster County
- Lincoln
- Nebraska
- rare
- Saline wetland
- Salt Creek
- Salt Creek tiger beetle
- Salt marsh
- Salt wort
- wildlife
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