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Researchers spent days tallying flower stalks across Gothic Valley, the second-largest count in nearly 50 years of tracking.
More than 600 people signed a petition to save 28 protected trees near U.S. 90, and residents have appealed the decision to the city council.
A water play arroyo, new playground and measures to prevent unauthorized vehicle intrusion are planned for the 40-acre Riverside park, but half the funding is still unsecured.
Paved trails, a fishing pier and a primitive campsite are coming to the Grapevine park once known as Silver Lake.
Hikers get rerouted onto sidewalks while crews install riprap and a new ADA-accessible kayak launch at the Medina Township park.
The water-garden retailer's grand opening weekend includes a ribbon cutting, food truck and lily pad photos at the historic Fahr Greenhouse site.
The Ohio Plant Show hits the John S. Knight Center October 3-4, with rare aroids, bonsai, and a golf simulator for the non-plant crowd.
The plan would fund 57 projects, from a Duwamish River salmon habitat to a Bellevue orchard beside affordable housing.
A whale-watching captain spotted roughly a dozen 9-foot spinetail devil rays near San Diego, an exceedingly rare sight this far north.
Three 90-minute cruises from Dock 4 near the Aquarium of the Pacific let visitors get close to massive cargo ships, no sign-up required.
Radar tracked nearly 752,000 birds over King County in a single night, with a peak of 279,000 aloft at once.
Nearly a third of the released frogs were raised in the zoo's new headstarting lab before hitting San Gabriel streams.
A fenced-off ravine with a 1872 stone dam could finally open to hikers near Skyline Wilderness Park.
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