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I do strongly agree with you on the issue of invasive exotics.  Having 
rafted down the Colorado River in Utah, I saw first-hand how awful is the 
Tamarisk invasion.  A native of Russia, impossible to get rid of, roots 30 
feet long, spread all the way from the delta of the Colorado River at Baja 
California, where it had been planted as an erosion control.  I asked our 
boatman how it came to be upstream so far (eastern Utah) and he asked me, 
"And which way is the wind blowing?"  Toward us...upstream.  Imagine this 
plant spreading all the way from the Sea of Cortez to Utah.  It's awful.
We deal with invasive exotics on our ranch...broom, wild hemlock, thistles, 
Cape Ivy to name a few.  We actually had a few plants of Yellow Star Thistle 
sprout in a small area of irrigated pasture, the seeds being spread from one 
infested bale of alfalfa hay.  I had a hoe out so fast, grubbing the thistle 
from the ground, and I burned it in our fireplace.
I shouldn't get started on this subject...it provokes me to frustration.

Barbara

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Karen Sullivan" <greymare56@xxxxxxxxx>
To: "Cynthia LeDoux-Bloom" <cledoux@xxxxxxx>
Cc: <ridecamp@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Tuesday, April 15, 2008 8:51 AM
Subject: Re: [RC] [RC] Black bears on the trail- California


 I have absolutely no interest in
> riding in a man-made park like setting, and get extremely upset to see
> spreading invasive exotics........(like all the tamarisk-salt cedar)
> choking the creeks in the Cache Creek wilderness), the scotch broom
> and Pampas grass all over the northern Calfornia coast, etc. 


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