[APWG] NEWS: Water-hungry salt cedar trees removed

[Olivia Kwong]

http://www.yumasun.com/news/water_46882___article.html/cedar_hungry.html

Water-hungry salt cedar trees removed
January 4, 2009 - 6:27 PM
BY MATHIS BAUCHNER, SPECIAL TO THE SUN

About 45 minutes north of Yuma, the Imperial National Wildlife Refuge 
stretches across over 25,000 acres of the Sonoran Desert. The Colorado 
River runs through the refuge, making it a habitat for the bird species 
plus native plants.

But an invasive plant, tamarisk, has spread throughout the refuge, 
threatening to drive out native plants.

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