<html><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; ">Especially since they've done such a magnificent job of bringing us a significant portion of the plants that won't be on their list. <div><br></div><div>Oh, here's a modest proposal: we should track down culpable government officials and make them graze the species they are responsible for until all the individual plants are gone, sort of like rent-a-goat. Make them work for their living, instead of making lists. Perfect justice, in a world that is so askew.<div><br></div><div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 18px/normal 'Lucida Handwriting'; color: rgb(42, 127, 34); ">Karen</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; min-height: 14px; "><br></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; ">Karen Blumer</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; ">Ecologist </div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; ">Ecosystem Based Management Projects</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; ">15 Dickerson Drive</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; ">Shoreham, NY 11786</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; ">631-821-3337</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; ">Cell: 631-834-4867</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; ">Fax 631-849-3118</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; "><a href="mailto:growingwild@optonline.net">growingwild@optonline.net</a></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br><div><div>On Mar 1, 2010, at 1:42 PM, Bill Stringer wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite"><div> <font size="3">Bob, Bob, Bob........<br><br> Bill Stringer<br><br> <br> At 11:29 PM 2/26/2010, Robert Layton Beyfuss wrote:<br> </font><blockquote type="cite" class="cite" cite=""><font size="3">How nice to see that the government will now decide what plants the<br> citizens may or may not possess. Thanks Big Brother.<br><br> <br><br> <br><br> <br><br> <a href="http://www.statesman.com/sports/outdoors/department-to-begin-invasive-plant-program-261616.html" eudora="autourl"> http://www.statesman.com/sports/outdoors/department-to-begin-invasive-plant-program-261616.html</a> <br> ><br> > Department to begin invasive plant program<br> > By Mike Leggett<br> > AMERICAN-STATESMAN STAFF<br> > Published: 7:22 p.m. Saturday, Feb. 20, 2010<br> ><br> > The Texas Legislature issued orders last session for the Texas Parks and<br> > Wildlife Department to begin compiling a comprehensive list of invasive<br> > and non-native plants and to publish a "white list" of plants that would<br> > be legal to possess, grow or sell in Texas. Any plant not on the list<br> > would be considered noxious and illegal.<br> ><br> > See the link above for the full article text.<br> ><br> ><br> > _______________________________________________<br> > PCA's Alien Plant Working Group mailing list<br> > <a href="mailto:APWG@lists.plantconservation.org">APWG@lists.plantconservation.org</a><br> > <a href="http://lists.plantconservation.org/mailman/listinfo/apwg_lists.plantconservation.org" eudora="autourl"> http://lists.plantconservation.org/mailman/listinfo/apwg_lists.plantconservation.org</a> <br> ><br> > Disclaimer<br> > Any requests, advice or opinions posted to this list reflect ONLY the<br> > opinion of the individual posting the message.<br> ><br><br> <br><br> <br> _______________________________________________<br> PCA's Alien Plant Working Group mailing list<br> <a href="mailto:APWG@lists.plantconservation.org">APWG@lists.plantconservation.org</a><br> <a href="http://lists.plantconservation.org/mailman/listinfo/apwg_lists.plantconservation.org" eudora="autourl"> http://lists.plantconservation.org/mailman/listinfo/apwg_lists.plantconservation.org</a> <br><br> Disclaimer<br> Any requests, advice or opinions posted to this list reflect ONLY the opinion of the individual posting the message.</font></blockquote></div> <br>_______________________________________________<br>PCA's Alien Plant Working Group mailing list<br><a href="mailto:APWG@lists.plantconservation.org">APWG@lists.plantconservation.org</a><br>http://lists.plantconservation.org/mailman/listinfo/apwg_lists.plantconservation.org<br><br>Disclaimer<br>Any requests, advice or opinions posted to this list reflect ONLY the opinion of the individual posting the message.<br></blockquote></div><br></div></div></div></body></html>