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A white man wearing a black beanie looks at moss through a hand lens.
Brian Munoz
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St. Louis Public Radio
More than 1,600 plants and animals are protected under the U.S. Endangered Species Act, but out of all of those, only one is a moss. A new effort seeks to protect these often overlooked plants.

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