USDA again

[Rudy Benavides]

Interesting dichotomy going on in Canada between monarchs (a revered insect 
symbol) and their host plants.  Anyone have any further info on delisting 
milkweeds there from the noxious plant lists?
http://www.uoguelph.ca/atguelph/99-06-02/articles/monar.html

rudy
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>From: "Kondla, Norbert FOR:EX" <Norbert.Kondla at gems3.gov.bc.ca>
>Reply-To: Norbert.Kondla at gems3.gov.bc.ca
>To: "'monarch at saber.net'" <monarch at saber.net>, leps-l at lists.yale.edu
>Subject: USDA again
>Date: Thu, 07 Feb 2002 08:31:49 -0800
>
>Once again I find myself scratching my head to see any biological science 
>or
>logic or shred of common sense in a USDA decision. Based on what I read
>below it seems that they do not want to allow importation of Monarchs to
>Rhode Island because they are uncommon there. So what does that have to do
>with anything ??? Most people would think that having more of a benign and
>beautiful species such as the Monarch in Rhode Island is a good thing. I
>guess the USDA logic would have us erect large mile high fences around 
>Rhode
>Island so that naturally migrating monarchs will never move into the state
>in numbers higher than their presently alleged uncommon numbers :-) This
>whole situation is really quite hilarious from the perspective of dark 
>humor
>-- God save us from the kind of bureaucracy you folks are facing in the USA
>:-)


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