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re: Re: *!?#@! CROWN VETCH - reply

What I would like to know is why IDOT is planting non-native wildflowers
and plants like crown vetch along Ilinois roadways when we have expert
botanists and ecologists on staff with DNR that can tell them exactly what
they should and should not be planting?  The lack of communication between
state departments is ridiculous.  They have all of this expertise at their
fingertips and they don't even utilize it.  This is a perfect example of
the left hand not knowing what the right hand is doing in state government.



>All the comments regarding crown vetch should lead everyone to realize that
>any non-native actively promoted by highway departments, etc. for erosion
>control is likely to lead to problems later on.  The properties that make a
>plant desireable for erosion control on new roadsides are precisely the same
>ones that make it a noxious weed in almost any other situation--rapid spread
>and agressive growth!
>                       --Helen Parker
>
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Ruth A. Green, Greenhouse Manager; Supportive Scientist
Illinois Natural History Survey, Center for Biodiversity
607 East Peabody Drive, Champaign, IL  61820
Office:  217-333-7091   FAX:  217-333-6294
Email:  rgreen@mail.inhs.uiuc.edu


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