Between loosestrife in the marshes, spotted knapweed in the fields, Eurasian milfoil in the lakes and garlic mustard in the forests, the native plants are have a rough go of it here in northern Michigan. And that's only four of the invasives in these parts.
>> From what I see exotics doing to the systems around me, I would say > extirpations are a bigger problem than extinctions -- same effects as > extinctions but on a local scale. All these local, small scale > effects > when considered as being repeated many times over a large area add > up to a > big impact. > > Mike Gross Leslie Mertz, Ph.D.
