Re: eucalyptus history
- To: C*@ucop.edu, "m*@ucdavis.edu" <m*@ucdavis.edu>
- Subject: Re: eucalyptus history
- From: M* &* A* G* <g*@pangeanet.it>
- Date: Wed, 07 Apr 1999 00:47:02 +0200
- References: <199904021720.JAA70570@ernie.ucop.edu>
As no-one can be held responsible for the actions of members of their
family, (and your great
grandfather was certainly not directly responsible for anything so
heinous as importing eucalyptus
plants) we will not hold it against you, Charlotte, ;7) but it would be
interesting to surmise what
many places in the world might look like if eucalyptus had never been
planted.
Here in Italy I believe that it is some 10/15 years since any were
publicly planted, as we now have
dense plantation forests where, unlike pine, the eucalyptus leaf-fall
ensures that no other plant
grows even within the vicinity. As a matter of interest, does anyone
know of a way of successfully
phasing out eucalyptus and phasing in local Mediterranean species? From
the point of view of the
nature lover in general, I know of only one bird species which uses the
eucalyptus plantations and
that is the ubiquitous European Goldfinch and I would dearly love to
watch the landscape change for
the better ...
Charlotte Strem wrote:
> snip
> The Bishop continued on to Australia, where he brought back the first
> eucalyptus seeds to California!
snip
