Contractors provide safe travel for endangered orchids on Kadena

Emily Moghaddas (left), 718th Civil Engineer Squadron natural resource program manager, and Saori Takeda (middle left), environmental scientist, listens as Hiroshi Ogimi (right), botanical surveyor, explains the transplanting method he will use to re-plant a bouran orchid on Kadena Air Base, Japan, March 13, 2013. A total of 160 individual plants are being moved from a munitions demolition site and moved to a new location to ensure these protected species are preserved. (U.S. Air Force photo/Staff Sgt. Darnell T. Cannady)

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