Monarch Mexican Migration and land management

[Paul Cherubini]

Pat Foley wrote:

> Eucalyptus displaces native plants, spreads well in coastal fog drip
> areas, allelopathically inhibits the growth of herbaceous understory
> plants and is a serious fire hazard implicated in major fires in Oakland
> and Santa Barbara.

If eucalyptus is really a "serious fire hazard", then why has so much
of it been planted on major college campuses in Calif. such as UC Santa
Barbara, UC San Diego, etc.?  On it's website, UC San Diego even boasts 
how the  "campus is forested with giant eucalyptus trees." 

And why did Chevron plant eucalyptus groves around the perimeter of it's 
huge oil refinery at El Segundo, CA and the refinery at Gaviota, CA?  
Monarchs are actually clustering at this very moment by the hundreds 
to thousands in the eucalyptus groves at both of these refineries. 

If the eucalyptus was truly "a serious fire hazard" I can't imagine how
any insurance company would write an affordable fire insurance policy for 
the coastal UC campuses or the coastal Chevron oil and gas refineries.

Also, since eucalyptus has been widely established along the California 
coast  for the past 100 years, planting a few more new small 5 acre groves 
here and there in urban and suburban setting to provide winter habitat for 
the monarch is not going to cause any problem of "displacing native 
plants".

> California has over 1400 species of native bees, and any advantage 
> we give to honeybees is a potential danger to the world's greatest 
> diversity hotspot for bees

Feral (wild) colonies of honeybees are rare along the California coast
according to honeybee expert Adrian Wenner.

Paul Cherubini

 
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