The Invasiveness of Native Plant People
Yes I really agree with her sentiments, the group think <i>native is best</i> manages to penetrate and insert itself as the ideal all should aspired to enact.   It&#x27;s a sorry sad fact that in my local (Northern part of Queensland, Australia) such thinking finally killed off one its main volunteer land management groups, without even a real good bye, they seem to have come to an end last year, no more media releases or group activities as far as I can tell.   I used to read their monthly  literature release leaflets and had at some point planned to pick their brains on a small project I had in mind.   Looking around their usual spot in the town&#x27;s library is  now occupied with leaflets from I guess a fork of the original, a local native plant group.<p>Permaculturalist have long had the problem with <i>native is best</i> thinking. [1]  The group think is also a distraction to real problems and threats facing some strips of land and environment.  The noise over one coconut tree in a national park drowns out the poor weed management rife in some National Parks, but that&#x27;s a problem that&#x27;s been two or three decades in the making, money as well as direction ... frankly the govt depts responsible don&#x27;t want to hear about mobs of feral pigs uprooting everything along streams, nor the lantana growing unchecked (though scrub turkeys no doubt do well under it,) nor any mention of a <i>fungus</i> that&#x27;s taking down the established big trees in some areas which were unwittingly contaminated.<p>As for eucalyptus species, there&#x27;s a wide range of tree types, some aren&#x27;t too bad and a grove of them stays relatively tidy, other species around my parts called Blue Gum and Poplar are two species which are painful for limb drop and always a surprise for the unsuspecting farm hand slashing long grass with a tractor in a paddock containing such trees.   My area typically doesn&#x27;t have much issue with wild fires, though poor forest management, poor fire management  and <i>procedural management</i> has greatly (over ten fold would be my guess) increased those risks.<p>[1]  <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;goodlifepermaculture.com.au&#x2F;tagasaste-tree-lucerne-friend-or-foe&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;goodlifepermaculture.com.au&#x2F;tagasaste-tree-lucerne-f...</a>