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<font size=3>Am I missing something, or is the potential to regain the
environmental integrity of a hugely important part of the habitat of the
western US being held hostage by a single species (albeit a red-blooded
species)? <br><br>
Admittedly, I am an Easterner with limited knowledge of the salt-cedar/
willow flycatcher/ tamarisk beetle/riparian habitat, but my inclination
is to say "Go, beetles, go!"<br><br>
If you don't have a copy already, go buy a copy of <u>Bringing Nature
Home</u>.... by Douglas Tallamy. Also see
<a href="http://copland.udel.edu/~dtallamy/host/index.html" eudora="autourl">
http://copland.udel.edu/~dtallamy/host/index.html</a> .<br><br>
Bill Stringer<br><br>
At 09:59 AM 6/22/2010, Olivia Kwong wrote:<br>
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<a href="http://www.seattlepi.com/local/6420ap_wy_saltcedar_beetle.html" eudora="autourl">
http://www.seattlepi.com/local/6420ap_wy_saltcedar_beetle.html</a><br><br>
USDA stops using beetles vs. invasive saltcedar<br>
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William C. Stringer<br>
President-emeritus<br>
South Carolina Native Plant Society<br>
<a href="http://www.scnps.org/">www.scnps.org</a> <br><br>
PO Box 491<br>
Norris, SC 29667<br><br>
Clemson University<br>
Entomology, Soils and Plant Science<br>
864 656 3527<br>
bstrngr@clemson.edu<br><br>
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<i>“Go my Sons, burn your books. Buy yourself stout shoes.
Get away to the mountains, the valleys, the shores of the seas, the
deserts, and the deepest recesses of the earth. In this way and no
other will you find true knowledge of things and their properties.”<br>
<br>
Peter Severinus, 16th. century Dane
educator
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