invasive plants
Let’s Boot Bush Honeysuckle Off the Land!
The story usually is told as “put a frog in boiling water and he’ll jump out, but put him in water and slowly raise the temperature and he’ll just sit there and cook to death.” While we’re all lots more used to frogs – boiled or not – most of us recognize the camel’s nose […]
“Green Chaos” of Natural Landscapes or Monoculture of Invasive Plants?
Writer John Fowles spent a portion of his childhood in rural England when his family moved from a London suburb to escape World War II blitzkrieg attacks on the city. His memory of life in the country, particularly life in a setting with woodlands, was, he later wrote, “Slinking off into trees was always slinking […]