I found my thrill....

on Honeysuckle Hill....
say you're out in the woods having a Muir moment when all of a sudden some tightass lady marches up to you, scrunches her face, points to the ground and says her life's ambition is to kill honeysuckle! HONEYSUCKLE!! I spent a few years of my youth in Atlanta and we kids used to run up and down Honeysuckle Hill, climbing trees, playing with tadpoles in the creek, watching the owls and whippoorwills swoop across our yards..I remember the smell of honeysuckle as being the most wonderful thing in the world..and to this day I love it....in Kentucky and Kansas, the plant Nazis have declared war on it....now, why would they do such a thing? because they're idiots, that's why... the native only cult has a special language with only a few words, so it's easy to recognize them...here's some of the words and phrases they use: exotic aliens, invasive monsters, crowds out, doesn't belong here, introduced, aggressive invaders, ecological menace, outcompetes natives, etc.
one of the silliest, most ignorant claims by these peeps is that water hyacinth is a horrible invasive weed. In fact, the hyacinths clean polluted waterways naturally. The reason the plant Nazis don't like it is it grows rapidly!!
　
KANSAS CITY, Mo. -- The enemy in the woods this day is a pretty white wildflower on a long stem. There's one over there. And there."Once you get a visual, you'll see it everywhere," said Linda Lehrbaum to a group of young people putting on their work gloves. "We're going to spread out through the woods. This is seek and destroy."
kentuckywoman ...this link all of a sudden stopped working, but a google search will give you an idea of the effort to kill honeysuckle!
hey did ya see the front page of the News-Press on Wednesday? a native pine branch fell off and almost killed a little kid! a NATIVE pine!! the kid's ok...
what's really happening is these folks, the architects of invasion biology, are promoting an invasive species crisis which rests on distorted and fabricated reporting of phenomena.. a reactionary movement, rooted in xenophobia and racism and financed by some of the world's most destructive corporations..in the name of nativism, extremists are poisoning, burning and clear cutting public lands to bring biological diversity under corporate control...Theodoropoulos /Invasion Biology-Critique of a Pseudo-Science
If the newcomers are only changing the ecosystem but "not causing significant harm," then "altering one’s perspective is certainly much less costly than any other sort of management program," Davis writes in his recently published book, Invasion Biology.
so don't let them waste another tax dollar trying to cleanse species that "don't belong here"..and keep yer paws off the honeysuckle!!