[APWG] NEWS: War Wtih Riverbank Invader, Waged by Muscle and Munching

[Olivia Kwong]

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/12/27/us/27tamarisk.html

War With Riverbank Invader, Waged by Muscle and Munching
By KIRK JOHNSON
Published: December 26, 2008

URAVAN, Colo. -- In the 1930s, when the federal government was 
experimenting with an array of projects to address bad times, 
tree-planting came into vogue as a tool to fight soil erosion here in the 
West and on the Great Plains. The shelterbelt program, as it was called, 
took trees from many parts of the world -- including a hardy species from 
the Asian steppe, called tamarisk or salt cedar -- and planted them by the 
millions.

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