[APWG] NEWS: The birds and the bee(tle)s

[Olivia Kwong]

http://www.hcn.org/issues/42.17/the-birds-and-the-bee-tle-s

The birds and the bee(tle)s
The end of a controversial tamarisk biocontrol program may be good news 
for habitat
News - From the October 01, 2010 issue of High Country News by Rachel 
Zurer

The beetles are dead and gone, shriveled in the heat or eaten by ants, but 
otherwise the Owens Valley, Calif., research site looks the same as the 
last time scientist Tom Dudley saw it. Tinemaha Reservoir glimmers beyond 
a wall of brush. The sharp peaks of the Sierra Nevada decorate the 
skyline. Invasive Eurasian tamarisk, or saltcedar, trees still freckle the 
valley floor, their feathery branches casting long shadows across the 
native sagebrush in the early morning light. And Dudley's beige beetle 
cage, the last of a set, still envelops a single tamarisk, as if the 
five-foot cube of fabric could contain the plant and everything it stands 
for. Unzipping the mesh, Dudley steps inside with his screwdriver.

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