In a message dated 97-01-04 18:04:50 EST, you write:
 
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 Yes, those are good bee forage, but most of them aren't native to North
 America (anise hyssop is), and if you're merrily tossing sweet clover or
 bft or dutch clover seed into the ditches and bare spots and dog walking
 areas, you *might* be undoing some hard labor attempting to re-establish
 native vegetation in that area.  I can't begin to count the number of
 hours I've spent pulling and roundup-ing introduced legumes and grasses in
 prairies and prairie roadsides, where we're trying to encourage diversity
 of native plants (which will also pay off for beekeepers in the long run).
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  Well think about this- honeybees are not native to Nothh America either I
hope no one goes around destroying feral colonies for that reason.
   Come to think of it neither is all the blacktop.
Now the highway departments you speak of are probably the same folks that
planted all those olive shrubs along the roadside.
      Tom