Dallas-area naturalists trying to halt Chinese privet's spread - Wildlife Gardeners

Staff · 02-05-2010, 10:40 AM

Dallas-area naturalists trying to halt Chinese privet's spread
10:40 AM CST on Sunday, January 24, 2010
By Roy Appleton / The Dallas Morning News

Dallas-area naturalists trying to halt Chinese privet's spread | News for Dallas, Texas | Dallas Morning News | Breaking News for Dallas-Fort Worth | Dallas Morning News
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Flood and four other Texas Master Naturalist volunteers have come to continue the daunting task of removing the Chinese privet from a 3-acre grove of Texas Buckeye trees in the Great Trinity Forest in South Dallas.

The privet is an invader that can take over an area, squeeze out native species and, if left unchecked, prevent forest regeneration. And across North and East Texas and the southern U.S., it and other invasive plants are increasingly challenging the natural environment and biodiversity.
"We are rescuing the buckeyes from obscurity," says Flood, standing before a still-dormant specimen in an area recently cleared of privet. "This gives them a fighting chance."

TheLorax · 02-06-2010, 12:10 PM

Another fine example of stewardship to our land.

02-06-2010, 12:10 PM	#2
TheLorax Unicellular Fungi Join Date: Nov 2008	Another fine example of stewardship to our land. __________________ "In the end we will conserve only what we love; we will love only what we understand; we will understand only what we have been taught." -Baba Dioum, Senegalese ecologist

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