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Tag Archives: invasive species
This week is “National Invasive Species Awareness Week” and a number of organizations around the country are holding workshops or distributing information to educate and inform the public about the threats invasive species pose to our natural resources including wetlands. … Continue reading
“Sometimes these animals are crushed seemingly to pieces, and, to all appearance, utterly destroyed; yet still they set themselves to work, and, in a few days, mend all their numerous breaches… to the re-establishment of the ruined habitation.” -Oliver Goldsmith, … Continue reading
With the recent release of the FWS report, Trends in Fishing and Hunting 1991-2006: A Focus on Fishing and Hunting by Species, some rumors about the sports’ diminished popularity have been explained with a closer look at the participation of … Continue reading
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Tagged alligator hunting, fishing, hunting, Inland Fisheries, invasive species, nuisance species, wetlands
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A major problem on many wetland restoration projects including mitigation sites is the presence and even dominance of invasive species. An “invasive species” is defined as 1) nonnative (or alien) to the ecosystem under consideration and 2) whose introduction causes … Continue reading
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Tagged honeybees, invasive species, purple loosestrife, wetlands
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Billboards are fairly common throughout the country and popular ways to advertise businesses, sports, politics—you-name-it. But invasive species? A local-state-federal partnership for restoring the Everglades launched its invasive species campaign at the end of 2009. The U.S. Army Corps … Continue reading
Recently a colleague sent me a list to a webpage with “weed recipes” with information about invasive species. (Thanks, Ruth!) I posted the link on Facebook thinking of friends who are always on the look-out for new ideas on cooking, … Continue reading
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Tagged eat invasives, invasive species, Japanese knotweed, weed recipes, wetlands
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Laguna Creek Wetlands Salamander By Paul Dale Roberts – Chronicles of a Ghostwriter/Ghosthunter This is a funny blog – not serious (the photo is a Chinese Giant Salamander, not native to CA) http://www.sacramentopress.com/headline/22632/Laguna_Creek_Wetlands_Salamander
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Tagged invasive species, salamander, wetlands
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When I was a little girl, my Gramma gave me some of her old fur stoles for playing dress-up. I was equally drawn to and disgusted by them. I liked to run my fingers over the ringlets and ripples of … Continue reading
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Tagged cooking nutria, Cree McCree, eco-fur, faux fur, fur, invasive species, nutria, nutria fashion, Righteous fur, wetlands
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Such strange beasts and fish Are also bred That no man can give name to— –The Compleat Angler An invasive species is “an alien species whose introduction does or is likely to cause economic or environmental harm or harm to … Continue reading
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