SC - OOP - "White List" question

[Elaine Koogler]

Actually, if you were to get pokeweed banished, it would upset a number of people who live in
the southeast US...around where I grew up (Henry County, Virginia), in the foothills of the
Blue Ridge Mountains, they swear that there's nothing quite is good as "poke sallat"....I
seem to recall them cooking it with a hambone much as they do other kinds of greens.

Kiri

Jenne Heise wrote:

> > Has anyone heard anything about the National Invasive
> > Species Council's "White List"?  From what I can
> > gather, it is a proposal (at this stage) to form a
> > list of approved, non-invasive species of plants,
> > which would prohibit the cultivation, propogation and
> > importation of any other plant NOT on the list.  The
> > papers I have read on it have been pretty one-sided
> > (maybe justifiable), and I have not yet been able to
> > access the actual, official government documents.
>
> In cases like this, when all you can find is one-sided, anti- papers,
> you can generally suspect that the reason you can't find the documents is
> because the documents saying what your sources are claiming don't really exist.
>
> For instance, the American Seed Trade Association's page says: "ASTA understands that, in
> the course of developing its Management Plan, the Invasive Species Council MAY prepare a
> list of invasive species. " (Emphasis mine.)
> http://www.amseed.com/documents/invasive102899_1.html
>
> The management plan they are referring to is available in final form here:
> http://www.invasivespecies.gov/council/nmp.shtml
>
> I've skimmed it and found that in final form it certainly doesn't seem to say what the
> geocities pages say it says. One of the interesting things is that the most onerous
> restrictions are on introducing NEW non-native invasive species, (Pity we can't get
> pokeweed banned. *sigh*).
>
> Note that if you run into a local Master Gardener or an Extension Agent at some festival,
> they are likely to have among their handouts a list of recommended non-invasive species
> and native species for planting. Such 'white lists' are not regulatory but educational
> items.
>
> --
> Jadwiga Zajaczkowa, mka Jennifer Heise        jenne at mail.browser.net
> disclaimer: i speak for no-one and no-one speaks for me.
> "The worst thing I can say of a person is, 'they couldn't be bothered'."
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