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where, permanently changing the landscape. I must confess this is not nearly as enticing a picture as that of early man picking the same berries in the same place.
The impact of foreign plants and animals on the environment is profound and permanent, changing the shape and character of the wild spaces, the neglected, uninhabited areas around our towns and villages. The character and personality of the woods themselves are changed. I remember as a child playing in giant Kudzu jungles that sprouted up in clear-cut soil- less wastes.
The Kudzu spread voraciously, covering trees, telephone poles, buildings; anything and everything, in giant green ivy. In winter, it all died back, leaving forlorn dead spaces- all draped in gray kudzu hay. The plant smells and looks like it doesn't belong. We have it he«p, but in more southern climes, it really takes over in an almost frightening way.
Zebra Mussels in the Great Lakes, Tent Caterpillars, the strange local plague of Asian Ladybugs- all are unappetizing examples of the chaos caused by non-native species.
In an instant my prized wineberry bush is transformed from a symbol of the persistence of ancient ways to an example of environmental change and chaos.
(I mentioned before that I am somewhat suggestible?) Yet that isn't the end of it.
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