Have the Blue Helmets arrived to "help" the Children, yet?
Another invasive species, like kudzu in the South.
Surprised some idiot has brought one to the US yet.
More Giant Hogweed! Moar!
I wish professional writers would learn the proper use of farther and further. They default to saying further because they don’t know better. In the case of cows roaming, you would not say they were fur away, you would say they are far away. If they go far and then go more far they would be farther away and if they go more and more far they would be farther and farther away. The rule is farther for actual physical distance and further for abstract distance, and further explanation is not needed.
The US govt introduced tamarask into the Colorado River to control soil erosion. It now chokes the banks all the way from the Gulf of America to its headwaters in Montana. It sucks up vast amounts of water. River beaches we used to use became jungles and we needed machetes to get through. They’ve tried burning it out to no avail. Now they are using a beetle to control it. God only knows what problems the beetles are going to cause.
Morons.
Next plant on the list kudzu ?
Kudzu diffuses throughout the forest ground and inhibits the natural process of tree renewal, preventing the growth of young hardwoods and killing off other plants. Kudzu out-competes brush and indigenous plants, which in turn diminishes vital food and habitat resources for wildlife.
In the U.S. south is infested with it NC & SC big time.
“The grassland landscape is so dominated by inedible mathenge trees...”
“It was seen as [...] a source of fuel and animal fodder.”
Whose brilliant idea was it to use inedible trees as a source of animal fodder?
The kudzu of Kenya.
We have Ailanthus pollution here on the upper- to middle East Coast. It’s the tree that can grow in the dirt of a sidewalk crack to a height of 20 feet, destroying the sidewalk and pipes beneath it. It usurps the sides of highways, and inserts itself deep in the center of decorative shrubs on otherwise impeccable landscapes, where merely cutting it off at ground level (assuming you can get loppers that far into the shrub) is completely useless, since seemingly within weeks its central root digs itself halfway to its ancient home in China, and will gladly regenerate. Don’t get me started on its messy, stinky blossom clusters.
Laughably, China calls it the “tree of Heaven.”
REDO OF KUDZU????
I love these people who think they are smart enough to try to control the environment and make it do what they want.
And just think.... some government-funded goon probably got a bonus, a raise and a nice retirement plan for coming up with that (just one) idiotic and devastingly destructive “idea”.