Re: "Time for the return of the native"
- Subject: Re: [SG] "Time for the return of the native"
- From: M* L*
- Date: Tue, 26 Mar 2002 09:32:39 -0700
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>Not all of the problems we face are from imported organisms. Currently
>we're faced here with a very threatening algae that causes a fatal disease
>in many wild trees, starting with tanoaks and including certain pines
>and live oaks. This isn't, as far as we can tell, caused by anything we
>did.
>We don't have a defense yet.
The last I knew, it was a transmission from rhododendrons.
>We do have a consensus here that we have something to protect, both the
>wilderness and agriculture. We have a spectrum of opinions as to what
>that means and what we ought to do about it. Some people on this list
>have been talking as if there were nothing to protect, and that surprises
>me.
That's tarring all of us with a mighty black brush. I know, I know, the
best defense is a good offense.
>It's not an either-or thing, it's a "sometimes this and sometimes that"
>thing.
>
>And it's tantamount to a lie to keep saying that there's a "natives or
>nothing"
>position.
Is it, indeed? Okay, I can get chile pepper seeds from a friend in New
Zealand. So long as I or he pays $90 for a @#$% phytosanitary
certificate. Yep, I can get all of the seeds I wish, but only from those
nations that have the resources to issue phytosanitary certs. My freedoms
haven't been curbed at all, have they? If they get this crap passed that
makes it illegal to move plants or seeds from state to state, you're going
to see lawbreaking you wouldn't believe. And I will too. Margaret L
