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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Contact: Carolyn
Brown Tel:510-813-5521
carolyn@GreenWaveCom.com
HORTICULTURE INDUSTRY PARTNERSHIP LEADS THE CHARGE AGAINST INVASIVE
PLANTS IN CALIFORNIA
San
Francisco, Calif., December 12, 2006 – How can the horticulture
industry simultaneously serve their customers, protect wildlife
and wildlands, and save Californians millions of dollars? By stopping
the spread of invasive plants. Industry leaders are participating
in an initiative called California Horticultural Invasives Prevention
(Cal-HIP) to halt new introductions of invasive plants – which
damage local ecosystems and are expensive to control or remove
once they take hold. Cal-HIP members are devising ways to avoid
growing, selling or promoting the problem plants, and they invite
the entire California horticulture industry to join them in the
new PlantRight program.
"Invasive plants are a national problem with regional solutions," said
Nicholas Staddon, Director of New Plants for Monrovia, a large
California-based Nursery. "I encourage nursery owners and
managers, and everyone involved in plant selection, to look at
their current offerings and identify plants that are currently
listed as invasive or potentially invasive, and then offer suitable
alternatives for their customers."
Bob Falconer, Executive
Vice President of California Association of Nurseries and Garden
Centers, concurred. "The horticulture
industry has the opportunity to be proactive – to do what
we can to address the serious and expensive problem of invasive
plants, rather than wait for regulations to decide for us. We saw
in other states that when policies are established without the
industry's involvement, the industry suffers. I hope to see all
California nurseries and garden centers embrace the PlantRight
program and do all they can to prevent the spread of invasive plants."
For complete press release, click
here to download. Additional
information on invasive plants by region can be found here.
California Association of Nurseries and Garden Centers
3947 Lennane Drive, Ste 150, Sacramento, Ca 95834-1973
Ph. [ 800] 748.6214 or [916] 928.3900
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