The Talk of the Lab Nuts Fermilab is a haven for nuts. Not only do we have large numbers of ordinary nuts, but rare nuts, nuts scarcely present anywhere else, thrive at the laboratory.
Nuts love it here.
Take, for example, the kingnut, a variety of hickory, Carya laciniosa , of which the Fermilab site has the only native trees in northeastern Illinois. In contrast, a certain rare species of native prairie aster might get a 6 or a 7. If, like Fermilab, you are trying to restore an area to something approximating its natural pre-McDonald's state, the appearance of species with high coefficients of conservatism is good. It means you're working your way back to the way things were. Its appearance means the Fermilab prairie restoration is doing fine.