[APWG] NEWS: Texas fights back against invasive plants and animals

Olivia Kwong plant at plantconservation.org
Tue Dec 2 08:00:26 CST 2008


http://www.star-telegram.com/804/story/1068554.html

Texas fights back against invasive plants and animals
By DAVE MONTGOMERY
dmontgomery at star-telegram.com
Posted on Tue, Dec. 02, 2008

AUSTIN -- There was a time when horned frogs weren't confined to TCU.

The real-life version of TCU's ugly-but-lovable mascot, actually a kind of 
lizard, ranged across Texas by the thousands until imported red fire ants 
marauded through the state, displacing the ants that served as animal's 
food source.

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