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

[David Low]

This could also be useful:
http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/cobi.12558/abstract?campaign=wolacceptedarticle
Cheers
D.

On 6 June 2015 at 00:28, Stephen L. Young <sly27 at cornell.edu> wrote:

>   FYI. This could be useful.
> http://www.pnas.org/content/early/2015/05/29/1506517112.extract.html?etoc
> Steve
>
>
>   From: Kathy Michels <kathleen.michels at verizon.net>
> Date: Friday, June 5, 2015 at 9:06 AM
> To: Dewey <historictimekeepers at gmail.com>, "maipc at lists.maipc.org" <
> maipc at lists.maipc.org>
> Subject: Re: [MAIPC] ACT!!!! Not just read it and weep or gnash your teeth
>
>  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
>
>  ------------------------------
> *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,http://www.historictimekeepers.com
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> 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/
>
>
>
> 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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