Artisode; Salt Cedar Invasion

fb invasive species is one of those species that's not native to the area and his command and it competes the native species and the rio grande the natural system is called avastin which has cottonwoods willows and what is coming in is salt cedar salt cedar is one of the more problematic due to its nature at play it's easily it grows up from seeds or from rice oats which were the underground resistance it's very prolific and it also conditions the soil so that other plants can grow around that after a few years and therefore it takes all the water all the nutrients in all the

space and all the song from the other plants salt cedar is native to asia minor or the middle part of asia the ones we have here usually from afghanistan in that area so this plant was brought here because they thought it was an ornamental very pretty sometimes called a smoking trained him just because of its film into sleeves and everything from a distance what the soul satyr really changes everything about that from the water i promise you it will suck up about two hundred gallons of water a day per plane and what's left is salts from the water that is concentrated in the leaves that's the name salt cedar the leaves and shed every winter they fall to the ground condition of the soil and nothing else can grow around them because it's too salty it's making its own bet just for itself

and its offspring to grow it is really strange in a lot of different ways it knows how to survive and i often turn it is it's from mars because you just can't kill it tell people about how we eradicate you can cut it and natural spring back with all these shoots the fiber can different one from here cut so you can burn it it loves set of combat with fifteen shoots an adult it could continue to go because it's got more nutrients in the resistance to the end you can even spray it with an herbicide which we don't like to do but that may be the last course well it'll drop all this leaves laugh at your inning comeback next year just as strong as it was before the soul satyr has no natural predator over here there's a two week period or about in the fall were is going door is going to drop its leaves but it's

sending all those nutrients down into its root system that's when you need to hit it with the herbicide if you hit it any other time of the year it dropped its leasing come back next year but what it takes it to the roots is that all of its energy trying to outgrow this herbicide in it actually kills itself was one thing i might say is we should all be very conscious of bringing in invasive plants because we find out a lot of these invasive species can double their numbers are double their size and one year it's no time to wait we need to get on with the iranians and we should all take to heart you know this is not just that fellow's land or their national wildlife refuge it's for everybody and everybody has a stake in it