N.H. Acts to Halt Flower ‘Marauders’
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CONCORD, N.H. — City dwellers hoping to decorate their homes with wildflowers picked in New Hampshire could wind up paying a $25 fine under legislation approved Thursday by the state Senate.
Senators singled out “marauders from Massachusetts” who travel to bucolic New Hampshire, dig up lady-slippers, trilliums and other wildflowers and transport them to Boston for sale.
The legislation directs state officials to draw up a list of “endangered and threatened plant species.” People who dig up the protected plants from public or private land without permission would face a $25 fine, state Sen. Susan McLane said.
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