Not all protected plants and animals are warm and fuzzy. The Land Trust recorded an easement on 6 acres of bog, with another four acres of buffer around the periphery, near Grouse Ridge, all to protect a rare plant that smells like dead meat and eats bugs.
This particular green-colored, insect-eating plant, Darlingtonia californica, needs very special habitat to survive and represents the southern-most range of this species.