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Center for Biological Diversity: Bureau of Land Management Still Needs to Protect Area From Mineral Leasing

CASPER, Wyo. (AP) — In a scrubby hollow at the northern edge of the Bighorn Basin, a mining venture could be thwarted by a rare plant with a funny name. The Pryor Desert sub-basin straddles the border between Carbon County, Montana, and Big Horn County, Wyoming.

CASPER, Wyo. (AP) — In a scrubby hollow at the northern edge of the Bighorn Basin, a mining venture could be thwarted by a rare plant with a funny name. The Pryor Desert sub-basin straddles the border between Carbon County, Montana, and Big Horn County, Wyoming.

Center for Biological Diversity: Mining Threatens Thick-Leaf Bladderpod

For Immediate Release, March 11, 2021 Contact: Peter Lesica, Montana Native Plant Society, lesica.peter@gmail.com Dick Walton, Pryors Coalition, (406)-656-9064, info@PryorMountains.org Endangered Species Act Protection Sought for Rare Montana Plant Thick-leaf Bladderpod Threatened by Gypsum Mining BILLINGS, Mont.— Conservation groups filed a petition today with the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service to protect the thick-leaf bladderpod under the Endangered Species Act. The rare plant is found in a small area of southern Montana’s Pryor Desert, where it is supposed ...