Mon, Aug 9, 2010 -- 5:30 PM

A San Francisco Survivor's Remarkable Story
The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service announced today it's considering a San Francisco plant once thought extinct in the wild for listing under the Federal Endangered Species Act. The plant is the only known specimen--in the wild--of Arctostaphylos franciscana, or Franciscan manzanita, and it's 8 inches tall and a sprawling 20 feet wide. Host Cy Musiker discusses the extraordinary find with Tom Parker, biology professor at San Francisco State University, and Brent Plater, executive director of the Wild Equity Institute, one of three groups that filed a petition to list the species as endangered.