This US island is home to flora found nowhere else. Now, a wildfire threatens extinction
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Firefighters are racing to douse flames on California’s Santa Rosa Island as experts express concern for unique habitat On the south-eastern corner of Santa Rosa Island lies a grove of a few thousand Torrey pine trees, some of them more than 250 years old. The only other place on earth where these gnarled pines exist […]