Re: Re: Invasive Plants

**A*@aol.com**

Yes Claude, You have a very good point. I am also getting very fed up with 
the noise about "natives" It has been my very limited solely personal 
experience that people who want decorative landscapes to contain only 
"natives" have never thought to themselves what they mean to say.

In my town the Conservation Commission uses the force of law to make 
homeowners plant only "natives" while using more than fifty percent Asiatic 
and European species on public lands, because the exotics are easier to get 
and sometimes gaudier.

However, it is very difficult to persuade the most powerful part of 
government to say to the lower levels." Hey you're screwing up!  This fat 
broad had shown me credible evidence that this community could get better 
results by changing current practices.
If changes don't happen fast I'm going to put it in the local press that 
changes have been ordered and any citizen noting old practices in use should 
call this office"  It is easy to fire someone if they are not following sound 
practices, but it is still hard to get people off their seats.

Human beings do not like change and even changing the American diet is going 
to take another century, we like fat, sugar, and salt so much they reinforce 
our reluctance to change.

Barbara
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