From billj AT harborside.com Tue Sep 12 21:43:58 2006Return-Path: <billj AT harborside.com>
I remember parting company with the ideologues 25 years ago in botany class. I guess I was just too old to be churched. I remember standing in the shadow of a tamarisk tree with my botany teacher, trying to emulate his own learned response, hanging his head in disappointment over seeing a non-native, all the while trying to hide my enthusiasm, and above all to avoid exclaiming "what a cool shrub!"
In the mid fifties it was given free to farmers to plant as wind breaks. Now it is a weed. There are many examples, it is not just granola eating hippies who fight this, it is real scientists who know the down sides.
Don Bowen Awl Knotted Up KI6DIU
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