Sonoma County, Calif.: “State wildlife officials believe someone planted endangered flowers at a Sebastopol building site to try to stop a disputed housing development. Saying the act amounts to criminal fraud, state Department Fish and Game botanist Gene Cooley said his agency concluded that Sebastopol meadowfoam plants found on the Laguna Vista site were transplanted from somewhere else.” (Mary Callahan, Santa Rosa Press-Democrat, May 14)(via Jonathan Adler, Commons Blog, May 14).
