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A close-up of a single, yellow, roundleaf monkey-flower amongst a host of green leaves.
Conservation

Nebraska’s Monkey-flowers

The roundleaf monkey-flower’s favorite haunts include the slow shallows of spring-fed Sandhills streams and the sandy-bottomed pools of spring-branch canyon streams flowing into the central Niobrara River.

Wolf's milk, growing on a log, looks like small, orange, rounded pom-poms.
Conservation

Discovering Slime Molds

The slime molds’ DNA suggests they are ancient creatures, one to two billion years old, slithering over the Earth’s barren rock surface at a time when the only other land creatures were bacteria.