[MAIPC] MAIPC Digest, Vol 62, Issue 2

Tue Dec 6 16:41:46 PST 2016

The false revisionism statements about invasives (plants and animals) is right up there with denial of human-accelerated climate change. Anti-science at best. Anti-education at worst. If more people recognized the invasives in their community and had any idea of the native plants they have displaced, and subsequent effect on insects and birds, there might be some hope. It's horrifying and sad that in modern times people don't still get the Land Ethic and the concept of biotic communities. Guess that's why we are using the Earth up. Apologies for the whining/doomsday view.

Guess we need to keep putting one foot in front of the other and do our best to educate and mitigate.

Donald Callihan
Maryland Master Naturalist (Intern)
Leave No TraceT Master Educator
Tread Lightly!T Trainer
Mobile: 410.961.8132
don_ihan at hotmail.com

"If we had no winter, the spring would not be so pleasant: if we did not sometimes taste of adversity, prosperity would not be so welcome."
― Anne Bradstreet, The Works of Anne Bradstreet

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Today's Topics:

   1. New Invasive Species Executive Order signed by President
      Obama (Marc Imlay)
   2. more false revisionism on invasive species--Boston Globe
      (Stephen Hiltner)
   3. Re: more false revisionism on invasive species--Boston Globe
      (Kathi Mestayer)

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Message: 1
Date: Tue, 6 Dec 2016 08:50:01 -0500
From: "Marc Imlay" <ialm at erols.com>
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	<aliens-l at list.auckland.ac.nz>
Subject: [MAIPC] New Invasive Species Executive Order signed by
	President	Obama
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From: James, Rosalind [mailto:Rosalind.James at ARS.USDA.GOV]
Sent: Monday, December 05, 2016 4:31 PM
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Subject: [ficmnew] New Invasive Species Executive Order signed by President Obama

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FIMNEW Listserv members,

You might be interested in this press release.

Executive Order -- Safeguarding the Nation from the Impacts of Invasive Species (Dec 5, 2016)

https://www.whitehouse.gov/the-press-office/2016/12/05/executive-order-safeg
uarding-nation-impacts-invasive-species

The White House (President Barack Obama). Office of the Press Secretary.

This order amends Executive Order 13112 and directs actions to continue coordinated Federal prevention and control efforts related to invasive species. This order maintains the National Invasive Species Council
(Council) and the Invasive Species Advisory Committee; expands the membership of the Council; clarifies the operations of the Council; incorporates considerations of human and environmental health, climate change, technological innovation, and other emerging priorities into Federal efforts to address invasive species; and strengthens coordinated, cost-efficient Federal action.

Rosalind James
USDA ARS Natl Program Leader
Invasive Pests of Crops

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Date: Tue, 6 Dec 2016 11:30:28 -0500
From: Stephen Hiltner <stevehiltner at gmail.com>
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Subject: [MAIPC] more false revisionism on invasive species--Boston
	Globe
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I just wrote a paragraph by paragraph critique <http://newscompanion.blogspot.com/2016/12/the-latest-false-revisionism-about.html>
of
an article that claims there's a "growing minority" of scientists and writers who believe we should do nothing about invasive species. Entitled "Humans make a mess, but invasive species get the blame" the article appeared recently in the Boston Globe.

Steve
PrincetonNatureNotes.org
NewsCompanion.com
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Date: Tue, 6 Dec 2016 14:33:41 -0500
From: Kathi Mestayer <kschachinger at gmail.com>
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Subject: Re: [MAIPC] more false revisionism on invasive
	species--Boston Globe
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Thanks for taking this one on. It's a growing problem in the mainstream press, incl NYTimes. 

>From Kathi Mestayer's Cellphone

> On Dec 6, 2016, at 11:30 AM, Stephen Hiltner <stevehiltner at gmail.com> wrote:
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> I just wrote a paragraph by paragraph critique of an article that claims there's a "growing minority" of scientists and writers who believe we should do nothing about invasive species. Entitled "Humans make a mess, but invasive species get the blame" the article appeared recently in the Boston Globe.
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> Steve
> PrincetonNatureNotes.org
> NewsCompanion.com
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