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<font size=3>At 04:42 PM 7/8/2008, Bob Beyfuss wrote:<br>
<blockquote type=cite class=cite cite="">Hi Bill<br>
I have plenty of weeds up here I could live happily without! The June 29,
2008 issue of the NY Times magazine has an article entitled
"Can Weeds Help Solve the Climate Crises" It is well worth a
read for those who still have an open mind.
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<font size=3><i> I read that piece. There was some good
science in it, and a few places where folks happily emitted sound bites
for the reporter. Certainly not a document to use to rationalize
abdicating our responsibility to keep our heads out of the sand and to
work to avert documented potential disasters, most of which we have
<u>some</u> power to avert, and more if we think about it and work at it.
<br><br>
</i><blockquote type=cite class=cite cite="">According to Elizabeth Cady
Stanton "To make laws that man cannot, and will not obey, serves to
bring all law into contempt." <br>
Bob</font></blockquote><br>
<i>Did Ms. Stanton suggest a list of laws that man
"<font size=3>cannot, and will not obey"? I sure am glad
that her list did not include laws against possessing and selling
anthrax, etc.<br><br>
</font>Bill Stringer<br><br>
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<font size=3>At 03:44 PM 7/8/2008, Bill Stringer wrote:<br>
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Bob, Bob, Bob!! There you go again! <br><br>
You appear to know nothing about cogongrass (<i>Imperata
cylindrica</i>). <br>
I would suggest that you take a vacation trip to AL, MS, LA, etc., before
you pontificate <br>
more on this super-weed.<br><br>
BTW, it's more important that people pay attention to laws. Most of
us gave up on reforming <br>
weeds several centuries back...<br><br>
Perhaps you might come down to the Eastern Native Grass Symposium this
fall.<br>
Oct 7 - 10, 2008, in Columbia, SC. You are within a couple of hours
of lots of cogongrass. <br>
And we in SC hope to keep it that way.<br><br>
Thanx<br><br>
Bill Stringer<br><br>
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At 02:41 PM 7/8/2008, Bob Beyfuss wrote:<br>
<blockquote type=cite class=cite cite="">People can make laws to try to
ban planting, possessing and distributing <br>
plants but plants don't pay attention to laws. Maybe we should have laws
to <br>
ban diseases? Lets make cancer illegal.<br><br>
At 01:28 PM 7/8/2008, McCully Heritage Project wrote:<br>
>I don't mean to sound ignorant, but what are the other 9 of the
"world's 10<br>
>worst weeds?" And how is that determined? Is anyone working on
banning them?<br>
>Just curious.<br>
><br>
>Michelle Berg Vogel<br>
>McCully Heritage Project<br>
>Kampsville, Illinois<br>
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>Subject: [APWG] NEWS: N.C. bans cogongrass, which can take over<br>
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>take-over/<br>
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>N.C. bans cogongrass, which can take over<br>
>Sold as Red Baron, Japanese blood grass, it is held to be one of
world's<br>
>10 worst weeds<br>
>By Janice Gaston | Journal Reporter<br>
>Published: July 8, 2008<br>
><br>
>Is cogongrass North Carolina's next kudzu?<br>
><br>
>Not if the N.C. Department of Agriculture and Consumer Services can
help<br>
>it.<br>
><br>
>The department announced yesterday that propagation, nursery
cultivation,<br>
>sale and distribution of cogongrass, an invasive perennial grass<br>
>considered one of the world's 10 worst weeds, will be prohibited in
North<br>
>Carolina. Nurseries and garden centers must stop selling all
cultivars of<br>
>cogongrass, including Red Baron, also known as Japanese blood grass,
by<br>
>Oct. 31. Permits for the interstate movement of the grass will be
denied.<br>
><br>
>See the link above for the full article text.<br>
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