Re: Purple Loosestrife

What was the gist of those new regs? I mean, are they for real?
Steve Hatch

LONDE@aol.com wrote:

> > 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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