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Re: [RC] California Agricultural product restrictions - Truman PrevattLest we not forget Kudzu, a.k.a. "the vine that ate the south". Kudzu is probably the king of non-native plants. It covers over 7 million acres in the Southern States - growing by the day. At one time it was planted by the highway department of a few states because it grows so fast it would prevent erosion. Some tried it as the perfect cattle feed. It grew where nothing else would and grew fast. Soon cows were getting lost under it.If you lay down on a nice warm summer day in the South better check around or it will grow over you and bury you. Getting rid of it is "the impossible dream." It just grows too well down here. There are some interesting pictures in the Kudzu collection. http://www.ibiblio.org/lineback/kud.htm To make this endurance related - you better have a horse that can move on for a long time because once that stuff starts growing, it can catch you fast. While mother nature can and does introduce non-native organisms it normally takes a common denominator to spread them In most that is man. However, as climates changes, so do ecosystems since climate is a big part of an ecosystem. Therefore, what was native 50 years ago may not do well today and the new ecosystem may favor what would not have grown 50 years ago. Truman Karen Sullivan wrote:
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