FRIDAY HARBOR, Wash. (AP) - In the grasslands on south San Juan Island, several patches of bright yellow flowers are fenced off from the rest of the landscape. The flowering plants are considered ...

There's only one place you can find one of North America's rarest butterflies: on a small patch of an island in Washington's Puget Sound. And it's in trouble. That’s why the federal government wants ...

Patches of yellow field mustard are seen at American Camp on San Juan Island. The plant is key to the survival of the rare island marble butterfly. The flowering plants are considered weeds by many, ...

SAN JUAN ISLAND, Wash. (AP) — Federal wildlife officials want to protect a rare white and green butterfly found only on Washington's San Juan Island. The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service on Wednesday ...

SAN JUAN ISLAND — The chrysalises are delicately perched on twigs, safeguarded by little more than plastic food containers stacked on shelves inside the captive rearing lab. Barely more than a hundred ...

Federal wildlife officials want to protect a rare white and green butterfly found only on Washington's San Juan Island. The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service says the island marble butterfly has been ...