Climbing high to save a threatened West Coast plant

Scientists plan to resurrect liveforevers from extinction after a devastating fire

Santa Monica Mountains

RESURRECTING LIVEFOREVERS  A 2013 fire in the western Santa Monica Mountains left parts of the landscape charred and a rare plant species on the brink of extinction.

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Protruding from a cliff face, a diminutive desert plant peered across a sapphire channel as flames charred the earth hundreds of feet below.