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["Harrick, Barbara" <b.harrick@ilslaunch.com>]

Hi Hector and all. You will be pleased to know that either the National
Forest Service or the West VA Dept. of Natural Resources has planted
many autumn olives at least in the Smokehole region (near Upper Tract,
WV) of the Monongahela National Forest. They have been planted all along
the South Branch of the North Fork of the Potomac River in the Big Bend
recreational area. We were just there over the Labor Day holiday and my
botanist friend discovered them and even mentioned that they were now
considered a pest. Don't know how far the planting has gone or even if
it is being continued, but they were numerous along the path that
follows the river.

Barbara

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Message: 2
Date: Mon, 8 Sep 2008 09:12:08 -0500
From: "Hector Black" <hblack1925@fastmail.fm>
Subject: Re: [NAFEX] autumn olive
To: "North American Fruit Explorers" <nafex@lists.ibiblio.org>
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Hi Alan, Hank, John and Rob,
      Seems to me we're not particularly far apart in this.  Point well
taken about reading posts carefully.  One of the things about email
(speaking personally) is that the durn thing is gone before I've had
time to really consider that this is what I want to say.  Written
letters are different for me somehow.  I've wished some emails back when
it was too late.
      Hank, What a bummer that they ploughed up the whole experiment at
Beltsville and didn't save one cultivar!  I tend to be one of those who
sees the usefulness of government, but this is one of those crass
examples of waste.  Very discouraging.  New head of department and
everything that went before is destroyed.  It may also have to do with
the USDA declaring Autumn olive a pest, a foreign invader.  I thought it
was kind of funny that they were eradicating them with one hand and
researching them with the other, but apparently the eradicators got the
upper hand.
     We've done a little planting of seeds and selecting, but old age
keeps me from doing serious work there.  I hope some of you can keep at
it.  Seems to me this is a most valuable plant.  Food, fertilizer,
honey, forage, fragrance - what more could we want?
     The price of Nitrogen fert. is way up, and the production of
chemical N is very polluting and uses fossil fuels.  GO! autumn olives.!
   Hector Black, zone 6 middle TN