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Re: Warning-diatribe was Re: Opinions please

    I want to add that I have made my comments not in reaction to the use of
native plants by the federal government. The fact that the government is
interested in implementing the use of native plants is wonderful. I am
president of the Tucson chapter of the Arizona Native Plant Society. This is
the kind of thing we are trying to implement in our own neck of the woods.
As long as these actions do not get translated as an anti-exotics thing I
think it is great.
    I love my native plants like no other, but I think it is wrong to have
an "anti" attitude about exotics. Our ancestrys' histories are intricately
woven in the floras of other areas here in America as most of us are of
European decent, or African decent, or elsewhere. Because exotics are
allowed here in our landscapes I know what a carob tree is, I know what it
looks like. I even know that the nuts used to be used to weigh gold (thus
the gold karat which equals I think one carob seed). I know what papyrus
plants look like. I am not a trust fund kid so therefore I cannot travel to
all these wonderful places to see the plants. They are accessible to me here
in my own town. Plants, as I hardly need to prove to anyone here, are just
about the fulcrum of our existence. We eat them, build our houses from them,
lubricate large industrial machines with them, fuel our homes with
them...and not all from native plants, nor could any of us do all this we do
here depending on just our own native plants. So personally I think it is
pretty damn important we understand even more than we do now about the flora
of this planet, and that means not banning exotics from being accessible to
common folks like you and me. Don't want to sound too fatalistic and
alarming here. I know most of the people on this list feel the same way, but
I think we ought to be careful about what laws are made about exotics, that
we don't sweep over broadly and loose something special.

Jared

jared@tucsongrowers.com
Tucson Growers
www.tucsongrowers.com
(520) 882-7060
2509 N. Campbell #338
Tucson, AZ 85719


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