Vermonters work to control invasive plants
Tuesday, 07/08/08 Noon on Vermont Edition
Citizens, school groups and even businesses are getting involved in the struggle to keep invasive plants from turning Vermont's unique natural habitats into unvaried swathes of less valuable species. We talk with Richmond selectman Jon Kart, a prime mover behind his town's effort to save its highly prized flood plain forests from an onslaught of Japanese knotweed, barberry and garlic mustard. And the Vermont Nature Conservancy's Rose Paul fills us in on why and how Vermonters from all walks of life are pulling up hundreds of pounds of invasives. We also check in on the debate over some commercially popular, but potentially invasive plants, and whether they should or shouldn't be added to the list of plants that can't be bought or sold by Vermont nurseries.
Also on the program, signs that Post Traumatic Stress Syndrome treatment programs developed for previous wars aren't meeting the needs of today's returning veterans. We talk with Dr. Andrew Pomerantz, Chief of Mental Health at the White River Junction V.A. Medical Center, about what's keeping this generation of soldiers from getting the help they need.
Plus, an audio post card from Mount Holly, a town whose claims to fame include the discovery of prehistoric remains found nowhere else in Vermont.
Photo: a field of purple loosestrife, one of the invasives on Vermont's Quarantine List
AP Photo/Michael Okoniewski
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