Groups say mining would risk rare plant in Pryor Mountains
March 12, 2021 GMT
BILLINGS, Mont. (AP) Conservation groups filed a petition with government wildlife officials Thursday seeking protections for a plant that’s found only in the arid foothills of the Pryor Mountains along the Montana-Wyoming border, where a mining project is being proposed.
The thick-leaf bladderpod is a small, flowering plant that depends for survival on a fragile type of soil that’s made of lichens, mosses and other organisms.
Researchers say the plant is largely limited to an area of only about 23 square miles (60 square kilometers) in southcentral Montana. The region receives as little as 8 inches of rain annually on average.
BILLINGS, Mont. (AP) Conservation groups filed a petition with government wildlife officials Thursday seeking protections for a plant that's found only
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