Protecting Grand Canyon Endangered Sentry Milk-Vetch Plant
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If you didn't know that the Sentry Milk-Vetch existed; you do now. It's a rare and beautiful flower to look at when you visit the Grand Canyon National Park.
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Protecting Grand Canyon Endangered Sentry Milk-Vetch Plant
- 1. 223,217,31 Grand Canyon National Geographic Visitor Center 450 State Route 64 Grand Canyon, AZ, 86023 Phone: 928-638-2468 explorethecanyon.com Protecting Grand Canyon's Endanger ed Sentry Milk-Vetch Plant
- 2. 223,217,31 Grand Canyon National Geographic Visitor Center 450 State Route 64 Grand Canyon, AZ, 86023 Phone: 928-638-2468 explorethecanyon.com GRAND CANYON, Ariz. - Sentry milk- vetch is a small blooming plant only found on the North and South Rims of the Grand Canyon. Have you heard of Sentry Milk-Vetch
- 3. 223,217,31 Grand Canyon National Geographic Visitor Center 450 State Route 64 Grand Canyon, AZ, 86023 Phone: 928-638-2468 explorethecanyon.com The plant's species name is cremnophylax, meaning gorge watchman, and that has been its job over the years - watching over some of Grand Canyon's most remote areas.
- 4. 223,217,31 Grand Canyon National Geographic Visitor Center 450 State Route 64 Grand Canyon, AZ, 86023 Phone: 928-638-2468 explorethecanyon.com As the years have progressed, the little watchman has needed others watchful eyes to provide protection and to preserve it from extinction.
- 5. 223,217,31 Grand Canyon National Geographic Visitor Center 450 State Route 64 Grand Canyon, AZ, 86023 Phone: 928-638-2468 explorethecanyon.com ïŒIn 1903 Marcus E. Jones, an explorer and scientist at the Canyon, discovered and named Sentry milk- vetch. ïŒBecause of its small population size, Sentry milk- vetch was extremely vulnerable and susceptible to impacts caused by visitors.
- 6. 223,217,31 Grand Canyon National Geographic Visitor Center 450 State Route 64 Grand Canyon, AZ, 86023 Phone: 928-638-2468 explorethecanyon.com Nearly 70 years later, Sentry milk-vetch has almost disappeared and is the only federally listed endangered plant in the Grand Canyon.
- 7. 223,217,31 Grand Canyon National Geographic Visitor Center 450 State Route 64 Grand Canyon, AZ, 86023 Phone: 928-638-2468 explorethecanyon.com USFWS plans to down list Sentry milk- vetch from endangered to threatened and outlines science-based criteria for the number and size of populations needed to down list it.
- 8. 223,217,31 Grand Canyon National Geographic Visitor Center 450 State Route 64 Grand Canyon, AZ, 86023 Phone: 928-638-2468 explorethecanyon.com According to the park, Sentry milk- vetch is threatened by habitat loss, climate change and drought.
- 9. 223,217,31 Grand Canyon National Geographic Visitor Center 450 State Route 64 Grand Canyon, AZ, 86023 Phone: 928-638-2468 explorethecanyon.com "The plant suffers from a lot of trampling from these scenic overlooks," said Shahed Dowlatshahi, a biological science technician working in the park's endangered plant reintroduction program.
- 10. 223,217,31 Grand Canyon National Geographic Visitor Center 450 State Route 64 Grand Canyon, AZ, 86023 Phone: 928-638-2468 explorethecanyon.com The plant only exists at Grand Canyon and only grows in shallow soil pockets in cracks and crevices of the Kaibab Limestone and only within 25 feet of the rim of the Canyon.
- 11. 223,217,31 Grand Canyon National Geographic Visitor Center 450 State Route 64 Grand Canyon, AZ, 86023 Phone: 928-638-2468 explorethecanyon.com Caring for the health and future of Sentry milk-vetch is now the responsibility of the park's endangered plant reintroduction specialists.
- 12. 223,217,31 Grand Canyon National Geographic Visitor Center 450 State Route 64 Grand Canyon, AZ, 86023 Phone: 928-638-2468 explorethecanyon.com More information about sentry milk-vetch and recovery efforts can be found at http://www.nps.gov/grca/learn/nature/astragalus.htm.
- 13. 223,217,31 Grand Canyon National Geographic Visitor Center 450 State Route 64 Grand Canyon, AZ, 86023 Phone: 928-638-2468 explorethecanyon.com Come to the Grand Canyon today to see all of the beautiful parts of the park! www.exploret hecanyon.co m Grand Canyon National Park