[APWG] The Invasive Species Biologist's version of "The Night Before Christmas"

[Chuck Bargeron]

Something to get you in the holiday spirit from Les Mehrhoff:

Dr. Clement C. Moore wrote the original "A Visit from St. Nicholas" often
known as "The Night Before Christmas" or "Twas the Night Before Christmas"
in 1823 as a Christmas poem for his children. Later, Thomas Nast inflated
St. Nicholas to the "chubby and plump" Santa that we know these days. I am
sure that neither envisaged this humble little elf turning their
masterpieces into the version that you see here. Neither of them probably
ever thought about invasive species either, I suspect. It is with the
greatest respect for their genius and in the spirit of the holiday season
that I share with you a little piece, versions of which I have read to
students for years, now with a new twist, the perspective of an invasive
species biologist.

http://www.invasiveplantcontrol.com/christmas.pdf

Les Mehrhoff,
Chief Botanical Officer
Invasive Plant Control, Inc.