Posted on 07/18/2022 3:50:14 AM PDT by tired&retired
The publication of Rachel Carson’s Silent Spring in 1962 sent shock waves through state agencies. The following year, in 1963, the Arkansas branch of the Bureau of Sport Fisheries and Wildlife (which later became the US Fish and Wildlife Service) imported grass carp as an organic treatment for catfish ponds.
Carp, with their voracious appetites for plankton, were a chemical-free filter. When the approach proved successful, additional species — black, silver, and bighead carp — were brought from Vietnam and Malaysia, and later from China and Russia as well.
Without differentiating among the species, agencies like the US Department of Agriculture and environmental organizations like Alliance for the Great Lakes began referring to them as “Asian carp.”
While farmers continued to release these carp into their catfish farms, the state began an experiment that used silver and bighead carp to filter sewers. When the FDA, citing sanitation violations, promptly shut the project down, state officials found themselves with a surplus of carp and released them into local streams, where the carp took to the wealth of plankton and thrived.
My mom’s refrain — you fix one problem and create another — resonates with what happened next.
(Excerpt) Read more at guernicamag.com ...
Just as the US Department of Agriculture gave away Florabunda Rose bushes to farmers for erosion control.
Include Salt Cedar for erosion control.
Japanese knotweed. Porcelainberry.
What is a "feminist biologist?"
Is science different for "feminists?"
“Just like state highway departments planting kudzu.”
Kudzu, the plant that ate the South.
Asian Carp, the fish that is devouring the Midwest.
“you fix one problem and create another”
One little sentence that defines the federal government, with most state governments following along like sheep.
Good question. Must be like those anti hunting vegans, who think eating pork is like cannibals eating a human, but see no problem with feeding their pet cats steak...
I don’t think the gubmint introduced it but Chinese Bush Honeysuckle will probably eat your Kudzu. It is certainly eating my part of Kentucky.
Just as the US Department of Agriculture gave away Florabunda Rose bushes to farmers for erosion control.
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The government introduced kudzu vine to help reduce erosion too. It soon covers everything that doesn’t move; houses, trees, telephone poles, sleeping dogs.
It works that fast? 🤭
Japanese honeysuckle, Chinese privet, Bradford pear, Chinese mimosa, also fill the woods and fence lines.
Reminds me of the old song “There was an old lady who swallowed a fly...”
In southwest Oregon, wild blackberry bushes can be planted
near water like the edge of a river or stream.
Blackberry bushes grow huge and produce an astounding
number of berries.
When I lived in SW Oregon I lived on a road that dead-ended
at the North Umpqua river - and there was a HUGE mass of
wild blackberry brambles between the dead-end and the river.
Some mornings I would take a bottle of water, a colander and
a spoon down to the end of the road, pick berries off of
the bushes, rinse them with water, sit down on the grass
by the bank of the river, and eat them. There is no better, pleasant
and free breakfast that I know of.
“Silent Spring” was a load of crappola that has led to the deaths of millions of Africans from malaria. Almost as many as deliberately murdered by PlannedParenthood.
It is a certainty that liberals were involved — they have no concept of behavior -> consequences.
When I was a kid we had honey suckle completely engulf the chain link fence across the back of our yard. We got two white pekin ducks for Easter one year. By the next year the honey suckle was almost gone. They ate it all.
I LOVE wild blackberries. They grow everywhere in Alabama, too.
But they are native to North America, no?
The problem with the others I listed, as well as kudzu, is they are not native, and have few predators, so spread and overwhelm the native plants.
And yes, I have seen a summer of kudzu growth completely grow over, around, under and into what previously was a nice patch of blackberries.
Kudzu versus blackberries - and the kudzu won.
Now THAT is impressive - but not in a good way - IMO!
Interesting read, but I find annoying her overly descriptive literary tone, kind of pretentious, and the article is “woke”: same old tired theme of “the world is a wonderful place, or would be, if it weren’t for those pesky invasive humans,” and the corollary of “ ‘colonizers’ (IYKWIMAITYD) are invasive everywhere, because the land really belongs to the people ‘originally’ there” (except, of course, even those indigenous people came from somewhere else, displacing someone before them, etc. etc. etc.).
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