[pbs] Fwd: Importation of Plants for Planting; Establishing a Category of Plants for Planting Not Authorized for Importation Pending Pest Risk Analysis - Proposed rule
Adam Fikso
adam14113 at ameritech.net
Fri Jul 24 17:34:37 EDT 2009
Yes, We need some informed rationality here. I may jut drop my membership
in The Nature Conserfancy after I hear from them.
----- Original Message -----
From: "Tony Avent" <tony at plantdelights.com>
To: "Pacific Bulb Society" <pbs at lists.ibiblio.org>
Sent: Friday, July 24, 2009 2:27 PM
Subject: Re: [pbs] Fwd: Importation of Plants for Planting; Establishing a
Category of Plants for Planting Not Authorized for Importation Pending Pest
Risk Analysis - Proposed rule
> Adam, Lee:
>
> You point out the absurdity of such a regulation. If this was in place,
> we would not have thousands of plants that we enjoy today from impatiens
> to lantana. The best models miss 40% of the plants. Any intelligent
> scientist will tell you that it is impossible to predict invasiveness
> for each habitat within each ecological region. I had a meeting a
> couple of years ago with one of the scientists developing this and we
> had this same discussion. Off the record, he admitted that it couldn't
> work, but he said that his superiors were demanding it, based on the
> rants from radical groups such as the Nature Conservancy, who has taken
> an ethnic cleansing stand on this issue. Everyone needs to call USDA
> Aphis and their legislatures before it is too late.
>
> Tony Avent
> Plant Delights Nursery @
> Juniper Level Botanic Garden
> 9241 Sauls Road
> Raleigh, North Carolina 27603 USA
> Minimum Winter Temps 0-5 F
> Maximum Summer Temps 95-105F
> USDA Hardiness Zone 7b
> email tony at plantdelights.com
> website http://www.plantdelights.com
> phone 919 772-4794
> fax 919 772-4752
> "I consider every plant hardy until I have killed it myself...at least
> three times" - Avent
>
>
>
> Adam Fikso wrote:
>> It surely could be a problem. A plant that's invasive ihn Florida can
>> barely survive in the Chicago area, or be grown only in a greenhouse.,
>> If
>> this isn't taken account of --the effort is stupid--example: Bomarea
>>
>>
>>
>> ----- Original Message -----
>> From: "Lee Poulsen" <wpoulsen at pacbell.net>
>> To: "Pacific Bulb Society" <pbs at lists.ibiblio.org>;
>> <IBSMEMBERS at yahoogroups.com>
>> Sent: Thursday, July 23, 2009 2:03 PM
>> Subject: [pbs] Fwd: Importation of Plants for Planting; Establishing a
>> Category of Plants for Planting Not Authorized for Importation Pending
>> Pest
>> Risk Analysis - Proposed rule
>>
>>
>>
>>> I just got this notice. Is this proposed new category and rules
>>> something we should be worried about? It kind of sounds like a good
>>> effort to control the entry of potential new weeds or pests. On the
>>> other hand, would it make it inordinately difficult to import something
>>> that we all know is perfectly safe?
>>>
>>> --Lee Poulsen
>>> Pasadena, California, USDA Zone 10a
>>>
>>> -------- Original Message --------
>>> Subject: Importation of Plants for Planting; Establishing a Category of
>>> Plants for Planting Not Authorized for Importation Pending Pest Risk
>>> Analysis - Proposed rule
>>> Date: Thu, 23 Jul 2009 12:31:24 -0400
>>> From: PPQ_Stakeholder_Registry at aphis.usda.gov
>>> To: wpoulsen at pacbell.net
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> Greetings PPQ Stakeholders,
>>>
>>> You are receiving this email alert because you signed
>>> up
>>> with USDA-APHIS-PPQ's Stakeholders' Registry to receive
>>> information related to the importation of plants. If
>>> you
>>> would like to have your name removed from the
>>> Stakeholders Registry list please send an email to
>>> Linda.Toran at aphis.usda.gov. If you would like to make
>>> a
>>> change in your topics of interest please go to:
>>> https://web01.aphis.usda.gov/PPQStakeWeb2.nsf.
>>>
>>> We are proposing to establish a new category of
>>> regulated
>>> articles in the regulations governing the importation
>>> of
>>> nursery stock, also known as plants for planting. This
>>> category would list taxa of plants for planting whose
>>> importation is not authorized pending pest risk
>>> analysis.
>>> If scientific evidence indicated that the taxon of
>>> plants
>>> for planting is a potential quarantine pest or a
>>> potential host of a quarantine pest, we would publish a
>>> notice that would announce our determination that the
>>> taxon is a potential quarantine pest or a potential
>>> host
>>> of a quarantine pest, cite the scientific evidence we
>>> considered in making this determination, and give the
>>> public an opportunity to comment on our determination.
>>> If we received no comments that changed our
>>> determination, the taxon would subsequently be added to
>>> the new category.
>>>
>>> APHIS will consider all comments received on this
>>> Docket
>>> No. APHIS-2006-0011 on or before October 21, 2009.
>>>
>>> For additional information go to:
>>>
>>> http://www.regulations.gov/fdmspublic/component/main?main=DocketDetail&d=APHIS-2006-0011
>>> .
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