re: #350 klys

Also, they’re an invasive species.

It shouldn’t be hard to get the environmentalists on the line for this one. The real challenge is going to be the people who think their property values will decrease because NO TREES.

A suprising number of people have problems with eradicating, or at least reducing, invasive species. In this case, it’s because they’re big shady trees in a land of scrubby little oaks, buckeyes and laurels. Then there’s feral pigs, which destroy habitat and out-compete native deer and other species, but some folks would rather see the pigs take over than have hunters kill and eat them.