This article originally published at California's love for one flower is poisoning the state's last wild river.

T ucked into California's remote northwest corner, the Smith River winds through Del Norte County, a sparsely populated ...

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There are multiple subspecies of poison ivy in North America, but all have leaf groups of three and can be green or have a ...

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