06-14-2011, 06:41 PM
[cool][#0000ff]Good points. Good link.[/#0000ff]
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[#0000ff]Yeah, I know all about the "fraggies". Hate that stuff. I am amazed at how much of our wetlands it has taken over in a relatively short time. That and the tamarisk. Going back to the 70's and 80's I could walk to the water around Utah Lake almost anywhere I wanted. Much fewer reeds and cattails and absolutely no phragmites or tamarisk. After 20 years in Arizona I returned (2004) to find many of my formerly favorite access spots virtually inaccessible.[/#0000ff]
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[#0000ff]I know in talking with DNR folks that they are quite frustrated by that stuff. They can spend a lot of time and money on "burns" and it grows right back within a year or two.[/#0000ff]
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[#0000ff]Probably the only way to get rid of it is to spread the rumor that is a vitamin-rich delicacy...that improves your "love life"...and then put it on the protected plants list. Then the folks who enjoy breaking the law will rip it all out in a year or so.[/#0000ff]
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[#0000ff]Reminds me of the joke down in Texas about how to get rid of Johnson grass...pour whiskey on it and the Baptists will chew it down to the roots. (Apologies to Baptists. Not my joke.)[/#0000ff]
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[#0000ff]Might be a "local" corollary but I wouldn't DARE go there. [/#0000ff]
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[#0000ff]Yeah, I know all about the "fraggies". Hate that stuff. I am amazed at how much of our wetlands it has taken over in a relatively short time. That and the tamarisk. Going back to the 70's and 80's I could walk to the water around Utah Lake almost anywhere I wanted. Much fewer reeds and cattails and absolutely no phragmites or tamarisk. After 20 years in Arizona I returned (2004) to find many of my formerly favorite access spots virtually inaccessible.[/#0000ff]
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[#0000ff]I know in talking with DNR folks that they are quite frustrated by that stuff. They can spend a lot of time and money on "burns" and it grows right back within a year or two.[/#0000ff]
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[#0000ff]Probably the only way to get rid of it is to spread the rumor that is a vitamin-rich delicacy...that improves your "love life"...and then put it on the protected plants list. Then the folks who enjoy breaking the law will rip it all out in a year or so.[/#0000ff]
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[#0000ff]Reminds me of the joke down in Texas about how to get rid of Johnson grass...pour whiskey on it and the Baptists will chew it down to the roots. (Apologies to Baptists. Not my joke.)[/#0000ff]
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[#0000ff]Might be a "local" corollary but I wouldn't DARE go there. [/#0000ff]
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