LITTLE THINGS big problems-- Invasive Plants In Our Parks

[@schoolsacc]

5 easy actions 1. Clean your gear 2. check tents, packs, pets, and vehicles for plants, seeds, and soil 3. remove soil and plant material from equipment 4. Remove seeds from laces and brush soil and seeds off shoes 5. Use boot brush stations

[@michaelcanningjr4706]

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[@harde4150]

I should of read the comments before I watched the whole dam video, oh well

[@PeytDog]

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[@angelagonzalez7407]

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[@commoners.coffee9918]

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[@LostWoodsman76]

It's good to get this info out there! Nurseries still sell highly invasive plants in many states! People just don't understand how serious the issue is.

[@5tonyvvvv]

Black Locust is Great Bow wood, Highly valued by the Cherokee

[@domenicocacciuottolo]

I think removing all invasive species is a lose battle

[@tanzirhossain9973]

Yes.

[@maxpower1337]

Even control of new ones is difficult.

[@Jordan-dm4uq]

DID THEY MAKE THIS IN MICROSOFT PAINT WITH A PEICE OF TRASH FOR A CAMERA ISN'T THAT THE I PHONE 1

[@Jordan-dm4uq]

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[@angelagonzalez7407]

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[@milanmicci7461]

Thistle in moving sand what wild life is that good for?

[@CountToBen]

Black Locust having a negative effect on the plants around it? I'm not so sure about that.

[@echofoxtrot2.051]

Black Walnut effects some species planted around them

[@Jordan-dm4uq]

THOSE COMMENTS ARE FROME ME STEVE MILLER

[@bigweb0311]

I blame the state of Ohio for pushing these non native invasive species. They should foot the bill for any landowner that wants it off their property!!

[@EriktheRed1]

Thanks for all the comments! We have two new videos coming out shortly!

[@Jordan-dm4uq]

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[@SathvikReddyMeka]

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[@onlies]

5 EASY ACTIONS 5 E A S Y A C T I O N S

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[@theworldmayneverknow5454]

what are the 5 easy actions?

[@birdie5850]

The world may never know

[@angelagonzalez7407]

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[@Jordan-dm4uq]

I LIVE IN TEXAS

[@angelagonzalez7407]

And ? Do we care?

[@milanmicci7461]

What are the park rangers working so hard to preserve, at the demise of the lake flora and fauna community? The Pitcher’s Thistle; the Pitcher’s Thistle is a temperamental plant. Has no identifiable purpose to the lake community but is however, endangered because of its temperamental nature. It has no nutritional value. In addition, “the high economic value of Great lakes shoreline for real estate development continues to threaten the Pitcher's thistle. Although it can be locally abundant in areas of relatively undisturbed habitat, the thistle is highly vulnerable because it is adapted to live in locations where many people would like to build vacation homes and resorts and is therefore critically threatened by anthropogenic habitat destruction.” It does not serve its community. It perhaps would be designated to prove Darwin’s theory that the strong and adaptable survive and those who are weak and inadaptable perish. The Pitcher’s Thistle looks very much like the hardy and greener spotted knotweed that the rangers pull up to make way for this weaker plant, another thistle. In fact, to rid the lakes of knotweed they have introduced “thirteen biological pest control agents” against this plant and its cogener, diffuse knapweed (“a useful plant as popular food for insects that may otherwise attack crops; particular in small-scale farming it is often advisable to allow non-invasive species (like Cornflower, C. cyanus, in Europe) to grow around fields. In such a beetle bank, they will draw pests away from crops”), including the moths Agapeta zoegana” (a foreigner itself is native to Eurasia and although it is claimed the moth doesn’t harm other plants the worm destroys trees ) and Metzneria paucipunctella, the weevils Bangasternus fausti, Larinus obtusus, and Larinus minutus and Cyphocleonus achates, and the fruit flies Chaetorellia acrolophi, Urophora affinis and Urophora quadrifasciata.” The long and short of this story is that in the name of “invasive species” the National Parks service has destroyed countless connections, introduced exotic insects, destroyed useful and valuable plants and wildlife communities in lake areas to save that spinney little Pitcher’s Thistle plant for children to step on at the barren lake with little natural refuge for wildlife but, an abundance of variety of fruit flies, moths and their larvae, and a plethora of weevils. Great job, National Parks services.

[@savageboner]

One could argue mankind has no identifiable purpose to the planet, but we continue to exist. You're complaining about the park rangers removing diversity, when what they are doing is ensuring diversity continues, something invasives prevent if left unchecked. See autumn olive and honeysuckle impact on the forests of appalachia.

[@milanmicci7461]

One thing Park Rangers have to be able to discern between is a Thistle and a tree maybe the trees are important but the thistle is not in service no purpose except work but I found in people's beach-going feet let's not be absolutists I will concede that you are right about trees to some extent although I like honeysuckle but the thistle is this a thorn in someone's foot serves no purpose and they're killing useful plants for the sake of the thistle so that beachgoers can't lay down on the beach which will make it so they will not have tourism

[@4cClubT]

anyones property that backs up to a park should get jailtime for having English ivy-better yet just outlaw it alltogether

[@shiningstar1909]

The native plant ideology is inconsistent with the basic principles of evolutionary theory and has dangerous political implications. Native plant advocates believe in the inherent superiority of native plants. This belief is based on an assumption that native plants “belong” in a particular place and that their presence in the proper location represents an “optimal” landscape for that place. This belief is based on a lack of understanding of the concept of natural selection. The mechanism of natural selection does not produce the optimal adaptation, but only the adaptation that is better than its competitors at any particular point in time, which is why introduced plants are frequently more competitive than their predecessors deemed “native.”

[@tanzirhossain9973]

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[@rainman4494]

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[@Jordan-dm4uq]

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