Climbing high to save a threatened West Coast plant
Scientists plan to resurrect liveforevers from extinction after a devastating fire
RESURRECTING LIVEFOREVERS A 2013 fire in the western Santa Monica Mountains left parts of the landscape charred and a rare plant species on the brink of extinction.
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Protruding from a cliff face, a diminutive desert plant peered across a sapphire channel as flames charred the earth hundreds of feet below. The remote pinnacle should have protected the onlooker, as it had in the past, but the blaze was too hot.