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Eucalyptus, the non-native tree that does so much. Like kill people.
Mono culture "plantations" dont sound like a good idea for non native species, particularly if you want them to adapt to the new climate above & underground. It's always a good idea for planters to collaborate with biologists and the likes, growing them in native forests would have given a chance for eucalyptus to adapt to native bacteria in the rhizosphere, even hybridise. These harsh mono plantations sound like more of a test than an attempt to integrate them, the end result being a species whose weaknesses are pronounced and their adaptation is stalled. In reality these are generational projects that need time before adapted specimens can be found, & then mass produced. Not to mention planting non native species in high risk areas such as park borders, sounds like a recipe for disaster to me. An ignorant county indeed. RIP Freida Williams— August 31, 2019 1:43 a.m.