Do You Battle a Invasive Plant ? NY Ban Sale of Certain Plants

[Jeni Ann]

Hmmmm, Cat, I never thought of my name as girly-girl ... probably because I am NOT girly-girl ... Carol Dee is probably STILL rolling on the floor. Maybe I should call her and see if she is OK.

 

[Carol Dee]

Hmmmm, Cat, I never thought of my name as girly-girl ... probably because I am NOT girly-girl ... Carol Dee is probably STILL rolling on the floor. Maybe I should call her and see if she is OK.

I am FINE, I just thought the same - NOT girly -girl!

 

[Nyboy]

Front page news yesterday. New statewide regulations go in to effect that will ban the sale, purchase and transportation of a long list of invasive plants. The list has 69 plants on it.

 

[seedcorn]

Good deal. Now watch people get around it because they don't want big bad government telling them how to live........

Meanwhile all invasive tropical species continue to destroy Florida....

 

[so lucky]

It's just for plants so far? I guess all those invasive animals are already banned. Like that Cane Frog?

 

[Ridgerunner]

Yes, the suggestions have been made on this forum, go to a neighboring state and smuggle them in.

While it may be illegal to bring in certain varieties of grapes that a state has banned for whatever reason, I don't have a huge moral issue with that. But I have not planted certain plants that many people use for food or flavor because the nice people on here have mentioned how invasive it is. I sure would not bring in an invasive plant for decoration, not when there are so many native plants that will do the job. I try to kill out any invasives I recognize.

 

[digitS']

This might be a good local story about that list:
New York invasive species list.

And yes, "... other invasive species, including 15 fish, 17 aquatic invertebrates (snails and clams), 13 terrestrial invertebrates (insects) ..." Even the mute swan made the list ... but made no comment ...

If there is money involved, there will be evasion of the invasive ban. It isn't just what people want. It's things like ease of propagation for nurseries. If a plant can be cloned for pennies, the unsuspecting will end up with it and some of the landscrapers won't give it up easily.

Steve
who was reading yesterday about invasive plants in Europe. that'll teach 'em to come over here and colonize

 

[ducks4you]

Banning them statewide is one thing. I truly hope that we don't ban them nationwide. 'O' Really, you DON'T want the government involved to fix a problem. Much better to give monetary incentives. I wouldn't recycle aluminum cans and metal if I didn't get some spending money from it, and it's a private business that weighs them and pays me.
Why not, instead, tax the nursery's more on invasive plants that they wish to sell? You would see them gone in a hurry bc there is no profit selling them.
You never know who is going to make lemonade from lemons.
Commercial fisherman in Illinois are making big money harvesting Asian carp.
http://www.asiancarp.us/news/carbondalereport.htm
http://www.stltoday.com/business/lo...cle_9492759b-5968-5021-9c13-23168664f0d3.html
http://www.jconline.com/story/news/2014/06/14/asian-carp-invasion-growing-problem/10537439/
http://fw.ky.gov/Fish/Pages/Asian-Carp-Information.aspx
Other places, too.
Chances are very good that the "crab" meat at your local buffet is actually Asian Carp. It tastes good, is cheap to harvest and chefs have been cooking with it bc it is also healthy for you.

 

[Carol Dee]

Good deal. Now watch people get around it because they don't want big bad government telling them how to live........

Meanwhile all invasive tropical species continue to destroy Florida....

Kudzu came to mind immediately. When visiting TN I saw it had arrived there, too.

 

[TheSeedObsesser]

Banning them statewide is one thing. I truly hope that we don't ban them nationwide. 'O' Really, you DON'T want the government involved to fix a problem. Much better to give monetary incentives. I wouldn't recycle aluminum cans and metal if I didn't get some spending money from it, and it's a private business that weighs them and pays me.
Why not, instead, tax the nursery's more on invasive plants that they wish to sell? You would see them gone in a hurry bc there is no profit selling them.
You never know who is going to make lemonade from lemons.
Commercial fisherman in Illinois are making big money harvesting Asian carp.
http://www.asiancarp.us/news/carbondalereport.htm
http://www.stltoday.com/business/lo...cle_9492759b-5968-5021-9c13-23168664f0d3.html
http://www.jconline.com/story/news/2014/06/14/asian-carp-invasion-growing-problem/10537439/
http://fw.ky.gov/Fish/Pages/Asian-Carp-Information.aspx
Other places, too.


Chances are very good that the "crab" meat at your local buffet is actually Asian Carp. It tastes good, is cheap to harvest and chefs have been cooking with it bc it is also healthy for you.

LIKE, LIKE, LIKE the part about making lemonade from lemons. If we would actually put an effort into that there would be no need to clear-cut thousands of acres of forest to make way for huge industrial-ag fields.