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[Bill Jones <billj AT harborside.com>]

This is the libs' pseudo-environmentalism.  Nobody bothers to point out 
that plants can be prevented from reseeding themselves just by 
deadheading the spent flowers.  It's hard to see which group of emotion 
voters is set on banning butterfly bush, so this one must be for the 
chemical companies, who'll sell more weed killer.

Many of the plants I've acquired for our homestead have been virtually 
eradicated in commerce now, and I'm still working on getting some garlic 
mustard from Europe.  It's getting harder to find persistent strains of 
red clover, and big trefoil (the best leguminous cover crop for 
wetlands) has really had war declared on it by the ideologues.

Bill
S. Oregon coast

http://www.boston.com/yourlife/home/articles/2005/09/22/ne_states_are_declaring_war_on_harmful_non_native_plants/