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Re: OT: Weather (was: Re: questions)

From:Roger Mills <romilly@...>
Date:Tuesday, October 30, 2001, 19:39
Steg Belsky wrote:
>Or Israel. :-) >I can still remember my 6th-through-8th grades Hebrew teacher talking >about _atzei ha-eikaliptus_ and how they are used _leyabeish et habitzot_ >"to dry up swamps".
They'd better be careful..... South Florida years ago imported a eucalyptus type tree, Melaleuca, for just that purpose, and it worked altogether too well. Those "swamps", the Everglades, were the source of their drinking water; it didn't occur to them that they were a finite resource... Now melaleucas are all over the place, and considered a pest. The State is trying to extirpate them on public lands, but it's a losing battle until (at some point) private property owners are also _required_ to get rid of them. They grow fast, and produce a jillion seeds which are spread by birds. (bird-poop trees, we called them) A beautiful tree, but.....