Let your eyes wander to the areas of this map that deepen into red. They are the places in the United States most likely to have plants and animals at high risk of global extinction.
It’s the most detailed map of its kind so far. Animals like the black-footed ferret and California condor are represented, but so are groups often left out of such analyses: species of bees, butterflies, fish, mussels, crayfish and flowering plants. Not included are gray wolves, grizzly bears and other wildlife not at risk of global extinction.
Read more at the New York Times.