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On 4/6/06 6:50 PM, "Jeff Gilligan" <jeffgill at teleport.com> wrote:

> I planted six species of hardy eucalypts near the shore of Willapa Bay last
> weekend. In an earlier discussion of eucalypts on OBOl someone from
> California mentioned warblers and other insect eaters being attracted to
> eucalypts to eat ?lerps? - red gum psyllid lerps. I hope the eucalypts get big
> before any lerps find their way this far north.
>
> Jeff Gilligan, Portland.
>
>
> On 4/5/06 9:51 AM, "sgmlod at aol.com" <sgmlod at aol.com> wrote:
>
>> Greetings Yet Again
>>
>> The vigorous defense of introduced species is the result of previous
>> unbridled assaults on introduced species as being evil and utterly without
>> value, worthy of utter and complete elimination.
>>
>> This sounds extreme, but look through Tweeters archives.
>>
>> While these assaults have taken place, I think a lot of folks have been
>> afraid to speak out, as saying that an introduced species is valuable is
>> definitely not politically correct.
>>
>> Again, I am not saying that we introduce more species or not eradicate
>> introduced species in certain circumstances. I am saying that the knee-jerk
>> tendency to remove all introduced species wherever found can be actually
>> harmful to our current ecological realities.
>>
>> Best Wishes
>> Steven Mlodinow
>>
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