Desert Botanical Garden, Garden Blog: The Team Sniffing Out Endangered Plants

BY GARDEN BLOG | JUL 15, 2024 | HORTICULTURE, RESEARCH

In 2022, Desert Botanical Garden introduced a pair of scientists with paws who are helping researchers with a major conservation project that involves endangered Southwestern plants.

Circe and Muon are two specially-trained dogs from K9inscentive, a California-based professional ecology detection training center led by Lauralea Oliver. For the past couple of years, Garden researchers have taken research canines with Lauralea to the field to locate the rare and endangered Canelo Hills ladies’-tresses orchids (Spiranthes delitescens).   Read more…