It cut my heart into four pieces,” said a 6-year-old Sacramento resident after hearing the plan to stem river access.

We’re at the precipice of a mass extinction, of all plants across the East Coast,” said Prof. Bethany Bradley of UMass. “If we do nothing, we do more harm.” ...

Despite a long history of traditional medicinal use in the United States, the collection, consumption and efficacy of the peculiar forest plant aptly named ghost pipe, scientific name Monotropa ...