[APWG] NEWS: Water-hungry salt cedar trees removed
Olivia Kwong
plant at plantconservation.org
Wed Jan 7 11:58:09 CST 2009
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.
See teh link above for the full article text.
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