RE: Non-Native Species

Demetrio Lamzaki (Dee_Lamzaki@msn.com)
Tue, 31 Dec 96 01:50:50 UT

>>You're right Rand, and the common "tumbling tumbleweed", the
>>symbol of the American West, actually comes from Russia!
>>
>>California resembles Australia when it comes to having forests
>>of Eucalyptus, the list never ends...

>You are _so_ right!
>Rice eels to zebra mussels, etc. One just has to sit down and
>think and one can come up with invader species.

So true! It's such an easy thing to do that the numbers soon
overwhelm you. Philip's post was a real eye-opener. It's
incredible what just a few individual members of a species
can do when given the opportunity, maybe if we told them
their parent stock was not genetically diverse enough when
it was released into the wild we can convince them to stop
dominating the landscape! :-)

Regards,

Demetrios