Thursday, October 12, 2006
Florida: Big Cypress Looks to Increase Exotic Plant Eradication Budget
Three years after officials celebrated the killing of the last melaleuca tree at Big Cypress National Preserve, a new plan calls for giving a 100-fold increase to the preserve’s exotic plant eradication budget. The goal: to keep the fast-spreading melaleuca away and bring seven other unwanted plants in the Big Cypress to the same fate. Only proper stewardship will keep them out permanently but what about those plants more easily deseminated?
