[MAIPC] ACT!!!! Not just read it and weep or gnash your teeth

[Kathy Michels]

Not just weep. Act and challenge in print!! I thought this kind of thinking disapperared long ago smothered  by kudzu mutliflora rose porecelainberry mile a minute , stultgrass, garlic mustard. Callery pear , english ivy etc etc. (Dont we wish they would disappear on their own!)

we  all know there are plenty of natives that shine on degraded soil- but then step back for succession as soils improve. Sometimes they need a jump start.  The problem with nonnatives is they dont allow natural succession and often themselves change soils to be inhospitable to natives. . Who is this person and do they have any training in ecology or experience with the natural world!! ??

This piece needs to be aggressively challenged for those trying to learn what works. I know i have been one of them and planted every invasive you can think of when i started out as a young gardener!! 
-Kathy


-------- Original Message --------
From: Dewey <historictimekeepers at gmail.com>
Sent: June 5, 2015 8:40:18 AM EDT
To: maipc at lists.maipc.org
Subject: Re: [MAIPC] read it and weep or gnash your teeth

She (article author) writes:

"Usually nonnative plants fill an area only after it had been left 
barren because of an altered soil profile brought about by man, severe 
storms, or both. Very few native plant species can grow in poor-quality 
soil.

By moving into these damaged areas, alien plants do what humans can’t 
easily do: they rehabilitate the soil. In other words, they are creating 
a rich soil so that—once they’ve done their job—native plants may again 
be able to grow there.

Nonnative species are able to obtain nutrients from nutrient-poor soil 
and transform them into plant tissue. When that plant tissue is returned 
to the soil (such as when leaves detach to be replaced by new ones or 
when the plant itself dies), it becomes humus—organic material that 
enriches the clay soil because its nutrients are in a form that’s usable 
by many more kinds of plants."

Huh?   Guess our concerns about changes  to pH and microfauna are unfounded.

How many  people in Albermarle County (high ed, high income) will now be 
quoting her "facts". Nuts

Regards, Dewey Clark,
On 6/4/2015 11:32 PM, Ruth Douglas wrote:

http://www.crozetgazette.com/2015/06/blue-ridge-naturalist-invasive-plants-invaluable-to-degraded-environment/

Regards,
  
Dewey Clark,
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On 6/4/2015 11:32 PM, Ruth Douglas wrote:
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> http://www.crozetgazette.com/2015/06/blue-ridge-naturalist-invasive-plants-invaluable-to-degraded-environment/
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> Unfortunately, I read this as a last look at email before going to bed 
> and now I probably won’t get to sleep for hours.
>
> Ruth
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