This is truly a world-wide problem. I had not realized. Turns out that Americans weren't the only stupid ones. I guess all this importation of things seemed like a good idea at the time. I'm a little surprised that gum trees create such a problem. They are all over SoCal and even into NoCal and until I was 16 or 17 I thought they were endemic species. I did not know they drank so much water... there isn't that much water where many of them live so apparently they take up whatever they can get. I'm still pretty worried about cobras, actually. Craig *************************************************************************** PaddleWise Paddling Mailing List - Any opinions or suggestions expressed here are solely those of the writer(s). You must assume the entire responsibility for reliance upon them. All postings copyright the author. Submissions: PaddleWise_at_PaddleWise.net Subscriptions: PaddleWise-request_at_PaddleWise.net Website: http://www.paddlewise.net/ ***************************************************************************Received on Wed Jul 20 2011 - 17:04:44 PDT
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