Re: Invasive Plants/book from BBG

**A*@aol.com**

repeating previous remark:  Peter Loewer's book is a big step past BBG.  What 
is needed really well done research on rather small areas.  I know Florida 
has enormous problems, but much of eastern Massachusetts, Connecticut, and 
Rhode Island is urbanized and the property managers understand plumbing, 
building codes, power blackouts, and a few other things, but they rely 
totally on the lowest bidder for landscape care and those people do not read 
much but headlines and a little in the news on TV.  These lowest bidder 
outfits do only what they believe the manager wants and nothing more, because 
they want to avoid seeming to say the "the joint's a mess"  You've got weeds 
that need eradicating and it's going cost 4-5 hundred bucks.  
Many towns and cities in southern New England are being squeezed by rising 
costs for basic services, growing school populations, etc., and public 
reluctance to pay taxes that will support all of these things and more.  The 
more is landscape management.  A very small few do manage to get volunteer 
workers for some landscape work.

I know everybody's busy, but the deliberate neglect of public lands is scary.

Barbara E. Emeneau
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