For more than 15 years, botanist Naomi Fraga of the California Botanic Garden has been trying to collect seeds from the rare Death Valley sage, for safekeeping in a vault of native California seeds.
This is the remains of an abandoned mine in the Nopah Range near Death Valley, California on Sunday March 22, 2026. (Krystal Ramirez for NPR) For more than 15 years, botanist Naomi Fraga of the ...
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