by Andrew Follett
Eco-tourists are coming in droves to see rare wildflowers popping up
in central California, but are trampling over the very flowers they came
to admire. The end of California’s multi-year drought spurred a “super-bloom” of
wildflowers, that’s drawn record-setting crowds of tourists. But those
same people have ended up trampling so many flowers, local officials
closed hiking trails to save what’s left of the rare flora. “[T]he state’s nature lovers are failing to follow some common sense
rules related to enjoying the beauty and are trampling over the delicate
flowers they have flocked to admire,” Leslie Eastman, who visited the
super-bloom , wrote in the blog Legal Insurrection Saturday. “In other words, these special snowflakes are killing the flowers.” The super-bloom is described as a once-in-a-lifetime experience to
see flowers that laid dormant throughout a multi-year drought.
Wildflowers such as desert asters, Parishes poppies, sand verbena,
phacelia and lupine have all been blooming across California. The destruction has been so severe that specialists were brought in to assess the damage,” Mary Papenfuss, a trends reporter, wrote in The Huffington Post. “Plants killed and seeds crushed will have a significant effect next season. Some of the areas may be replanted.”...more
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