Re: Purple Loosestrife

> Date: Thu, 10 Aug 2000 21:44:52 EDT
>  From: Blee811@aol.com
  
>  ===>This makes me much more nervous than genetic modification of >plants.  
I'm very worried about what those beetles are going to do >when they finish 
all  the loosestrife. 

Bill --
This makes me very nervous, too.  They say there was very rigorous testing 
before this program was implemented but it still makes me nervous.  There are 
no easy solutions now.  Purple Loosestrife should never have been brought 
here in the first place.  

Those of you who were complaining a few weeks ago about possible new 
regulations on the importation of plants should think long and hard about all 
of this.  Not being able to buy a particular plant we want in our gardens is 
such a petty concern compared to the danger of invasive exotics plants. When 
Purple Loosestrife was imported it seems no one predicted the harm it would 
cause.  We should have known.  Scientists now have a list of attributes that 
make a plant potentially invasive and Purple Loosestrife has those qualities. 
It is a pretty plant, but it has painted a very ugly picture on our 
landscape.  Now we are faced with solutions that may in the end add even more 
problems.  Our environment is very precious and very delicate.  We need to be 
very cautious when we try to fool Mother Nature.  --Janis  

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