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More Species Swell the Ranks

More Species Swell the Ranks

Posted on January 22, 2009 | 0 Comments

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The 2008 Santa Monica Mountains species tally continues to climb, and now stands at 1,716—or more than one additional species each day, on average, since inventories closed last May. With the Indiana Dunes National Lakeshore home to more than 1,000 native plant species, according to published reports, we wonder: Could the 2009 BioBlitz on May 15th and 16th surpass the Santa Monica Mountains tally? Stay tuned.

Photographs by Phil Crosby (lizard, butterfly), Lou Gainous

POSTED BY FORD COCHRAN at 11:36 a.m. PST

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