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I don't recall disturbing any plants or animals as I was rafting down the 
Colorado.  And the company we went with was excruciatingly particular about 
not leaving ANYTHING unnatural in the wilderness...no garbage, no paper, no 
plastic, no waste of any kind.

Barbara

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Mike Sherrell" <mike@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: "Ridecamp" <Ridecamp@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Tuesday, April 15, 2008 9:22 AM
Subject: FW: [RC] [RC] Was Black bears on the trail- California, now 
invasive exotic plants


> Rafting down the Colorado would seem to make you an invasive species too,
> no? Out of Africa, aren't we? No offense; I include myself. It's just that
> the older I get, the more misanthropic, especially when I think of the
> extinction rate we've imposed on the other animals.
>
> Regards,
>
> Mike Sherrell
> Grizzly Analytical
> www.grizzlyanalytical.com
> 707 887 2919; fax = 707 887 9834
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: ridecamp-owner@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> [mailto:ridecamp-owner@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Barbara McCrary
> Sent: Tuesday, April 15, 2008 9:14 AM
> To: RIDECAMP; Karen Sullivan
> Subject: Re: [RC] [RC] Was Black bears on the trail- California, now
> invasive exotic plants
>
> 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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