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Last chance to comment on the Environmental Assessment on control
by release of introduced pest insects of Purple Loosestrife
 
The Comment Period which ends July 12, 1995 is not far away.
Your chance to have real input in what the Fish and Wildlife Service
does to control Purple Loosestrife is short. You see they have already
decided that this beautiful, productive naturalized bee forage plant
is all bad and must be dealt with, but you can comment on which plan
they should use.
 
  The US Fish & Wildlife Service Three Alternatives Plans:
 
 Plans
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A> NO ACTION, which transulated from US goverment code means:
Plants will be removed by hand pulling; controlled by flooding or
drying; plants stressed by mechanical treatment; herbicidal treatment
and fire to temporarily control plants in selected areas.
 
B> RELEASE ALREADY APPROVED BEETLES: Service would release the two
beetles when they have been bred without internal parasites.
 
C> BIOLOGICAL CONTROL: Release three additional bettle species that
are host specific to purple loosestrife. Long-term, continuous control,
not eradication.
 
I ask you all to join with me in making your personal comments to
the Fish & Wildlife Service and support Plan A> NO ACTION as an
alternative to the risk of releasing of any kind of new plant pests
that will damage or destroy other native wildflower other then Purple
Loosestrife the intended target host.
 
Mail your comment to arrive on or before July 12, 1995 to:
 
Chief Robert Schallenberger
Division of Refuges
U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service
600 ARLSQ, 1849 C St., NW,
Washington, D.C. 20240