[MAIPC] Invasives skeptics and their nouveau ecosystems

[Kathi Mestayer]

You know, i've actually heard the term "native plant nazi."  That's so insulting on so many levels, I don't know where to start. 

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> On Sep 3, 2015, at 9:04 PM, Muth, Norris (MUTH) <MUTH at juniata.edu> wrote:
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> Here here Steve. We truly give them too much credit with the term skeptic. As I’ve heard first hand (and it is also established in print), several of them painting the anti-invasives crowd as akin to nazis (I wish I were joking), I have chosen, at times, to borrow their own twisted motif and label them “invasives-deniers.”
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> Your piece is spirited and nuanced and much appreciated.
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> Norris
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> From: frazmo <frazmo at gmail.com<mailto:frazmo at gmail.com>>
> Date: Thursday, September 3, 2015 at 8:41 PM
> To: "maipc at lists.maipc.org<mailto:maipc at lists.maipc.org>" <maipc at lists.maipc.org<mailto:maipc at lists.maipc.org>>
> Subject: [MAIPC] Invasives skeptics and their nouveau ecosystems
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> 
> For folks who attended the MAIPC conference last month, you might have heard me mention "invasives skeptics." Later, someone posted a link to an extremely annoying Harper's article that took some nasty shots against us anti-invasivites. So I finally was rousted to write something about this topic that had been simmering on my mind for a while. If interested, please take a look at my Plantwhacker blog here:
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> http://www.plantwhacker.com/2015/09/invasives-skeptics-and-their-nouveau.html
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> Cheers, Steve Young (Arlington VA)
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