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Re: [RC] California Agricultural product restrictions - Karen SullivanPreaching to choir here, Truman....in my neck of Northern Calif Scotch Broom, Pampas Grass, Tamarisk, are huge problems. You are right, but "Boopsie' is not the real problem, it IS the landscaping industry. ...people will buy what the garden centers have...the problem is Calif Association of Nurseymen...who lobbied AGAINST a bill to ban sale of invasive exotic landscape plants in Calif some years ago, and the huge wholesale growers who will sell whatever they can propagate fast..... As far as the folks who can blatently disregard this problem by thinking, "well, we all come from somewhere", the problem with some of these exotics is they just don't go wild here and there...they totally replace entire habitats and functioning ecosystems,and in the case of Scotch Broom, are very flammable!!! To make this trail and endurance related...my idea of a great ride is not riding through an endless thicket of scotch broom....but going places where I can enjoy the native plants and animals. I piss a lot of friends off each year when I stop on the trail at Pt Reyes and yank out foxglove...yes, it is pretty (more pretty to me in someones planter box on their deck)....but is is a runaway at Pt.Reyes and volunteer trail crews go through the park each years trying to head off exotic plant runaways.... Also don't forget, in Calif, some of the exotic plant runaways were deliberately planted by Caltrans! Karen (former native plant nursey owner) ----- Original Message ----- From: "Truman Prevatt" <tprevatt@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> To: "Barbara McCrary" <bigcreekranch@xxxxxxxxxxxx> Cc: "Sisu West Ranch" <ranch@xxxxxxxxxxx>; "Betty Edgar" <betndez@xxxxxxxxxx>; <AppaLucie@xxxxxxx>; <ridecamp@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Sent: Tuesday, July 18, 2006 11:26 AM Subject: Re: [RC] California Agricultural product restrictions Lest we not forget the "landscaping" industry. In the SE one of the biggest infusion of non-native is "Boopsie wants that pretty plant she saw on vacation in Brazil in her front yard." So she gets one. Of course it doesn't stay in her yard and soon the seeds are spread far and near by birds. The Everglads are being overtaken by Brazilian Pepper trees and Melaleuca trees. The Melaleuca is a native of Australia. Both were introduced as landscape trees. The state of FL is working like the dickens to get ride of these pest. Many of our "invasive" plants got started in someones lawn and got away. Truman Barbara McCrary wrote:Another grass that is non-native that many advocate trying to eliminate is Hardinggrass. It was THE grass to plant for pasture several decades ago, so of course we planted some. The livestock don't like the grass but will strip the heads off it. It is course-stemmed and has a root crown that is next to impossible to eliminate. We had some in our lawn and I've tried for years to get rid of it. Anyway, good luck to anyone who wants to eliminate it on the basis of it being non-native! Furthermore, there are few grasses anymore that are truly native, at least over a large area. Barbara-- “With or without religion, you would have good people doing good things and evil people doing evil things. But for good people to do evil things, that takes religion.” Steven Weinberg – Nobel Laureate, Physics =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= Ridecamp is a service of Endurance Net, http://www.endurance.net. Information, Policy, Disclaimer: http://www.endurance.net/Ridecamp Subscribe/Unsubscribe http://www.endurance.net/ridecamp/logon.asp Ride Long and Ride Safe!! =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= Ridecamp is a service of Endurance Net, http://www.endurance.net. Information, Policy, Disclaimer: http://www.endurance.net/Ridecamp Subscribe/Unsubscribe http://www.endurance.net/ridecamp/logon.asp Ride Long and Ride Safe!! =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=
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