Beaver Island Phragmites Control
After two days of tri-folding letters and stuffing envelopes, answering Emails, writing letters and writing and editing about a million words for twenty different articles, I was all ready to call it a night.
I had eaten my little bowl of buttered noodles and poured a big glass of red wine. I was headed for the couch. I wasn’t going to write another word tonight.
One last check of my Email…one unopened letter. The title: Goats. I knew what this was about.
“Don’t open it!” my tired self advised…but I opened it anyway.
So, here I am, in the middle of the night, at the desk.
I know.
Goats are an outstanding biological weapon against invasive plants.
No chemicals needed.
They eat Oriental Bittersweet. They eat Poison Ivy. They eat Phragmites. They eat Kudzu, for heaven’s sake!
We can’t use goats here.
Though they are a valuable, non-chemical helper in…
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