The feds proposed listing the prostrate milkweed, which lives along the Texas-Mexico border, as an endangered species. The plant is threatened by the wall, scientists say. SouthTexas BorderWall BorderSecurity EndangeredSpecies Texas GregAbbott
The prostrate milkweed grows close to the Rio Grande in Starr and Zapata counties and is threatened by an invasive species that benefits from development, including land clearing for border security, according to the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service.
“Depending on the alignment, construction [of border barriers] would obliterate prostrate milkweed plants” in one area of the plant’s habitat, aProstrate rarely blooms, and for a botanist, finding it in flower or fruit is “like winning the lottery,” said Chris Best of the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service.
The Fish and Wildlife Service will make a final decision on the endangered species designation in a year. If approved, the designation would set aside 691 acres of habitat in Starr and Zapata counties deemed critical to the plant’s survival — including land in a national wildlife refuge in Starr County where U.S. Customs and Border Protection had scheduled road improvements and planned border barrier construction. President Joe Biden paused most border barrier construction when he took office.
Best worked at the Lower Rio Grande Valley National Wildlife Refuge for 16 years and said whenever staffers found the plant in the field, “everybody would be like, ‘God, look at that, prostrate milkweed! That’s incredible.”
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