[pbs] Fwd: Importation of Plants for Planting; Establishing a Category of Plants for Planting Not Authorized for Importation Pending Pest Risk Analysis - Proposed rule
Tony Avent
tony at plantdelights.com
Fri Jul 24 17:38:00 EDT 2009
Adam:
I hope you will read the Nature Conservancy's position paper posted all
over the Internet...I have also been a member in the past. This is
truly frightening.
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
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"I consider every plant hardy until I have killed it myself...at least three times" - Avent
Adam Fikso wrote:
> 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
>
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>> 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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