She helped save one of the world's rarest creatures from extinction - and herself along the way

Jana Johnson was a struggling grad student in 2003 when she first met the butterfly that would change her life.She was 34, with two little boys and a crumbling marriage.Her research into the effect of wildfires on reptiles in the Santa Monica Mountains had stalled, she was juggling multiple part-time jobs, and her family was far away in Texas.

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