[APWG] NEWS: The birds and the bee(tle)s
Olivia Kwong
plant at plantconservation.org
Thu Oct 21 08:10:27 CDT 2010
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.
See the link above for the full article text.
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