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Jun 23, Invasive species are non-native organisms that cause harm to the environment, economy, or human health with damages costing the United States approximatelybillion every year (Simberloff).

Invasive plants alter the native ecosystem and disrupt biodiversity in forests, meadows, and wetlands. Invasive plants can reduce the amount of tree cover by preventing trees from becoming established, causing them to fall down prematurely, or reducing their growth rate.

Invasive plants, such as Japanese knotweed or Himalayan blackberry, form monocultures areas entirely dominated by one species next to streams, which prevent tree establishment.

A Harvard University study showed that garlic mustard reduces soil fungi and clean cat tree fleas the establishment of tree seedlings. At Lathrop, we remove alien invasive plants from our land, not because we hope to restore a pre-colonial environment, nor because we hate aliens per se, nor because we want to spend a lot of time and money managing the outdoors, but because these alien invasives are a direct threat to our survival and the survival of the birds, bees, butterflies, and other creatures we shrubremover.barted Reading Time: 7 mins.

Jun 01, Invasive plants are more than a threat to our ecosystem and economy. They're a threat to the tranquility of our landscapes.

But guess what?

In the world of horticulture, many invasive species begin as landscape favorites. That fabulous filler shrub may fill your garden, inch by inch and then row by row.

Jul 25, Although the trees have been there for a long time, officials at an informal city meeting declared that they will have the trees and chain-link fence removed, recognizing it as a symbol of segregation that they simply do not want to abide.