The company is a leading producer of crop protection chemicals in domestic markets for soybean broadleaf herbicides, soybean grass herbicides, and corn soil insecticides, and is the country's second-largest producer of cotton grass herbicides, the FTC said.
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Because the lake is part of the only raised bog in the Palatinate Forest and is important for the species-rich flora along its shore and on its floating island ( including cotton grasses and orchids ), it was placed under protection in the 1930s as a natural monument.
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Until the 1980s, the most reproduced and publicized of Bauer's works were two paintings depicting the princess and the moose from " Sagan om �lgtjuren Skutt och lilla prinsessan Tuvstarr " ( The Tale of the Moose Hop and the Little Princess Cotton Grass ), published in 1913.
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Among them are a growing population of peregrine falcons, once an endangered species; about 500 resident tundra swans; and as many as 300, 000 snow geese that stage on the coastal plain in the fall, fattening up on cotton grass before their 1, 200-mile flights to California and Mexico for the winter.
