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The Beacon warns against digging Showy Lady’s Slipper orchids, 2006

Also Beaver Island Showy Ladys Slipper 2006

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TypeEvent
Date2006
WithinBeaver Island
ErasModern era
On this page
Event
Date
2006
Kind
Conservation
Eras
Modern era
Concepts
plantsconservationenvironmentsciencecommunication
Within
Beaver Island

Summary

Barbara Rahn’s May 2006 essay used the Showy Lady’s Slipper to explain orchid ecology, rarity, slow maturation, fungal dependence, and the conservation warning against digging wild plants.

Evidence limits

The essay is an educational source, not a site-specific survey or confirmed Beaver Island occurrence record.

Sources

See the sources block above.

Sources

  1. Beaver Beacon, May 2006, "The Lady Slippers are Coming."
    Barbara Rahn describes Showy Lady's Slipper ecology, its 10–15-year path to first bloom, fungal requirements, state-level rarity, and the warning not to dig wild plants. No public copy of this file is known; the archive holds one and can provide it on request.
    data1 · beaver-island-archive · beaver_beacon · 2006-05_Beaver-Beacon
  2. The held issue scan confirms the conservation essay and photograph.
    data1 · beaver-island-archive · scans · beaver_beacon · issues · 2006-05_Beaver-Beacon

Added 5 August 2026. Recent changes

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Beaver Island Archive, “The Beacon warns against digging Showy Lady’s Slipper orchids, 2006”, https://beaverislandarchive.org/events/beaver-island-lady-slipper-conservation-2006/, accessed [date], citing Beaver Beacon, May 2006, "The Lady Slippers are Coming." (and 1 further source listed on the page).

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