The bright visage of butterflies fluttering in a field of swaying golden paintbrush flowers was a rare sight up until a few years ago. The perennial flower, native to prairie lands in the Pacific ...

The golden paintbrush prairie flower has been de-listed from the Endangered Species Act due to its recovery in south Puget Sound. A. LaValle USFWS Every happy anniversary story begins with flowers, ...

Tom Banes photographed flowers found in prairie grasslands, clockwise from upper left, prairie gentian, a hybrid prairie lady's slipper-yellow lady's slipper, narrow-leaved coneflower, prairie ...

LACEY, Wash. — The iconic golden paintbrush is decorating the prairies in Washington and Oregon with vibrant colors once again. The plant has made a resurgent comeback thanks to the Endangered Species ...

A once-rare flowering prairie plant has recovered enough in Washington and Oregon for federal officials to remove it from the Endangered Species List. The Northwest’s golden paintbrush blossoms in one ...

PORTLAND, Ore.— The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service proposed today to remove a flowering plant called the golden paintbrush, in the Pacific Northwest, from the endangered species list due to its ...

PORTLAND, Ore.— The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service today finalized removing the golden paintbrush from the endangered species list after the flowering plant recovered in the Pacific Northwest.