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The critical habitat of the endangered buckwheat is the Nevada mine wherein a lithium mining company was supposed to work using a $700M government loan. Find out why the company was cited here:
The US Bureau of Land Management has issued a trespass notice to Ioneer Rhyolite Ridge LLC for the unauthorized use of certain Tiehm’s buckwheat habitat. The areas were being used as a laydown area for geotechnical drilling operations associated with collection of subsurface data. Rhyolite Ridge is a large, shallow.
The Bureau of Land Management said in a trespass notice to Ioneer Rhyolite Ridge LLC that it has confirmed land was disturbed within the designated critical habitat for Tiehm’s buckwheat, a 6-inch-tall desert wildflower with yellow blooms.