James R Lyles III, Technical Editor, Tacoma, WA wrote:
>
> Stuart MacKay and his merry band of loosestrife pluckers
> at the Montlake Fill might take heart from an Associated
> Press story today about the loosestrife-eating beetles
> that the government has unleashed (so to speak) on selected
> sites around the country.
>
> --cheers, Jim Lyles, Tacoma

I think the latest issue of the Nature Conservancy's magazine also has
an article on this topic.

Dean dean at amc.com