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A Proposed Nevada Lithium Mine Could Destroy Critical Habitat for an Endangered Wildflower Found Nowhere Else in the World
Environmentalists say the current mining plan would drive Tiehm’s buckwheat to extinction; the company proposing it claims it would have no direct impacts on the plant and the effects on its habitat could be mitigated.
By Wyatt Myskow
In less than half a day, you could walk all the way around the 10 acres the endemic species Tiehm’s buckwheat calls home in the Silver Peak Range of Nevada, where the small wildflower with yellow pom-poms grows in part thanks to the soil beneath it being filled with lithium and boron.
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