[APWG] NEWS: Lagoon resident leads fight for mangroves

[Olivia Kwong]

http://www.news-journalonline.com/NewsJournalOnline/News/EastVolusia/evlEAST05ENV121708.htm

December 17, 2008
Lagoon resident leads fight for mangroves
By KELLY CUCULIANSKY
Staff Writer

NEW SMYRNA BEACH -- Amber Thompson has planted 17 trees over the years, 
but there's one species on her waterfront property that she's likened to a 
monster that just won't die.

It's a Brazilian pepper-tree cluster and she's tried everything she knows 
to get rid of it. For the seven years she's owned the property, Thompson 
has watched the invasive plant push out the mangroves on the shore. She's 
tried to eradicate it several times.

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