California Botanic Garden
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Amargosa River Basin Gets $2.9 Million Planning Grant — But Restoration Is Still Years Away
On a Saturday afternoon in Tecopa, over pizza from the Kit Fox Café, scientists and local residents gathered at the community center to reckon with a quiet emergency. The subject was the middle portion of the Amargosa River — what it still holds, what it is slowly losing, and what it will take to keep…
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Amargosa Conservancy Unveils Plan to Protect Endangered Niterwort
Fencing, nursery-grown outplantings, and new interpretive signage aim to curb vehicle damage and revive a declining niterwort population in the Tecopa Hot Springs area. On the evening of February 18, 2026, the Tecopa Community Center became a briefing room for a plant most visitors never notice—because it’s only a couple inches tall, blends into crusted…