[APWG] NEWS: War Wtih Riverbank Invader, Waged by Muscle and Munching
Olivia Kwong
plant at plantconservation.org
Wed Feb 4 11:56:49 CST 2009
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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