Meadowview Biological Research Station
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Meadowview Biological Research Station is a non-profit 501(c)(3) organization dedicated to preserving and restoring rare wetland plants, habitats and associated ecosystems on the coastal plain of Maryland and Virginia. It was created in 1995 with the specific goal or restoring the rare yellow pitcher plant (Sarracenia flava), the purple pitcher plant (Sarracenia purpurea), and associate species to pitcher plant bogs or seepage wetlands in their historic ranges.[1]
Formation | 1995; 29 years ago (1995) |
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Type | Nonprofit |
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Legal status | 501(c)(3) |
Headquarters | Woodford, Virginia |
Board President | Dr. Phil Sheridan |
Website | https://pitcherplant.org/ |
Most pitcher plant habitats have been destroyed in this critical mid-Atlantic region to the point where less than 100 yellow pitchers plants were left in just two natural sites in southern Virginia by 2007.[2] Meadowview worked to deal with, and reverse, the process of extirpation of local and regional pitcher plants habitats, flora, and fauna.