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Holiday In Wales New Jersey declared war on phragmites on Friday. The tall, thirsty reed, which covers the Meadowlands like fur, joins more than 1,000 other plants and insects on a hit list of alien species that threaten the state's environment.

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Holiday Wales By executive order, Governor McGreevey established a New Jersey Invasive Species Council to combat the dangerous invaders. The council will submit a battle plan to the governor by June 2005.

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Cottage Holiday In Wales "This issue has been building as a quiet crisis for many years," said Bradley M. Campbell, commissioner of the Department of Environmental Protection.

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Accommodation Holiday Wales They include enemies such as hydrilla, an aquatic weed common in the southern U.S. which was discovered last year in a Burlington County lake. Hydrilla clogs waterways, tangles boat propellers, and has the potential to foul up the state's cranberry industry, said Carl Schulze Jr., director of Department of Agriculture's Division of Plant Industry.

Holiday Last Minute Wales Another invader, the hemlock woolly adelgid, is an insect native to China and Japan. It poses a grave risk to all 26,000 acres of hemlock forest in the state, according to the DEP.

Catering Holiday Self Wales Most of the harmful aliens came from other parts of the globe by chance. Many alien plant species sneaked into New Jersey as seeds on ships from around the world in the 19th century, when soil was used as ballast.

Holiday Wales Walking The Asian longhorn beetle, a scourge of hardwood forests whose New Jersey population so far has been confined to Hudson County, hitchhiked into the country as larvae on crates originating in China. The state estimates that 1.9 million acres of woods could be damaged if the beetle were to spread.

Family Holiday Wales "New Jersey is a crossroads state where tremendous amounts of goods pass through from all around the world," Schulze said. "As we move toward more of a global economy, chances for the introduction of non-indigenous species are greatly magnified. We're finding new things all the time."

Holiday Riding Wales These foreigners usually have few natural predators here, so they become aggressive competitors for food and space, often crowding out native species in their march toward bio-domination.

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Holiday Park South Wales The roster of biological public enemies includes some seemingly friendly species common to North Jersey back yards, like the Norway maple, which is popular with landscapers. It can wipe out native hardwoods because of its enviable fecundity, its tolerance to shade, and its overall hardiness.

Cottage Holiday Wales The Japanese barberry is sold as an ornamental shrub, but because it requires little sunlight, it invades deep into the heart of canopied forests, elbowing out native plants.

Holiday In Wales Some interlopers can fool you with their beauty. Purple loosestrife, a European native, is strikingly attractive, and bees love it. But it smothers a variety of wetland plants that are important food sources for wildlife.

Holiday Wales This is one of the fundamental problems with a lot of these invasive species, Schulze said. "They're fine in the right environments and tremendously devastating in the wrong ones."

Cottage Holiday In Wales By Bob Ivry
Bergen Record - 3/6/2004

Topic: Biodiversity

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