Word: hershler
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...that its plan will be considerate of the land, with carefully monitored pumping that can be dialed back the moment evidence of harm comes to light. But in the desert there's not a lot of margin for error, and a chronic water imbalance can be environmentally devastating. Robert Hershler, a taxonomist at the Smithsonian Institution, has combed through the biota of hundreds of springs in the Great Basin region, including Snake Valley, and has discovered more than 100 new species of spring snails, some of which are confined to a single location. "If their spring dries up, these snails...
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