[APWG] NEWS: Harvard biologist comes to the defense of the muchreviled tree of heaven

[ialm at erols.com]

i could not agree less.  A complex root system holds water better to
prevent storm water runoff, as well as nitrogen release to the Bay. Adrian
Higgins did not list the principle benefit that is destroyed by an
invasives, biological diversity. It is true that Tree of Heaven and
Japanese Stilt grass hit disturbed areas faster than undisturbed area, but
pristine areas are eventually hit hard. 
Original Message:
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From: Gena Fleming genafleming at gmail.com
Date: Mon, 14 Jun 2010 15:04:03 -0500
To: plant at plantconservation.org, apwg at lists.plantconservation.org
Subject: Re: [APWG] NEWS: Harvard biologist comes to the defense of the
muchreviled tree of heaven


*Bittersweet, tree of heaveen and dandelion are fundamentally "symptoms of
degradation, not the causes of it," Del Tredici said.*

Thanks, well said.  I couldn't agree more.

Gena Fleming


On 14 June 2010 14:54, Olivia Kwong <plant at plantconservation.org> wrote:

>
>
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/06/13/AR2010061304
822.html
>
> Harvard biologist comes to the defense of the much reviled tree of heaven
> By Adrian Higgins
> Washington Post Staff Writer
> Monday, June 14, 2010
>
> The misnamed tree of heaven has been outlawed in the District for more
than
> a century. No one has planted it in decades. Still it grows. Alongside
> railroad tracks, in the cracked blacktops of abandoned lots, in dark,
> stagnant alleys.
>
> See the link above for the full article text.
>
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