[pcplantdb] Invasive plants

John Schinnerer john at eco-living.net
Thu Feb 10 15:23:20 EST 2005


Aloha,

> A week or so back we discussed whether to include information about 
> invasive plants. I got this email yesterday putting a strong case for 
> including this info.

I do support comments, notes, etc. on potential or observed/documented 
"invasive" behavior of a plant, given in context.

I don't support an attribute "invasive" being in the DB for each plant 
as a boolean sort of value.  PC folks if anyone ought to understand that 
nothing is that simple.

In other words, I don't support blindly jumping on the "alien invaders" 
bandwagon that is so politically correct (and un- and anti-permaculture 
and ignorant of the complexity of natural systems) these days.

Key book is "Invasion biology - Critique of a pseudoscience," DI 
Theodoropoulos, Avvar Books, 2003, ISBN: 0970850417,

Toby or Peter reviewed it recently in PC Activist.
Holmgren just had an article in the Activist on same general topic.

cheers,
John S.



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