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Monday, August 01, 2011
Environment - "Plant managers try to fight off invasive species"
Interesting AP story from Columbus IN by Brian Sanders. It begins:
Never send a bug to do a man’s job.That’s what Jim Allen, property manager for Brown County’s Yellowwood State Forest, thought after years with no visible results from thousands of Galerucella beetles unleashed in 1997 to counteract the forest’s infestation by purple loosestrife.
Purple loosestrife is considered an invasive species by the Indiana Department of Natural Resources — a plant with no natural checks on its spread. Loosestrife, which originated in Europe and Asia, arrived on the East Coast in the late 1800s and had taken root in the Midwest by the 1940s.
Posted by Marcia Oddi on August 1, 2011 01:25 PM
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