On 11/8/2010 3:15 PM, Josh wrote:
On Mon, 08 Nov 2010 12:36:31 -0500, wrote:

On Mon, 8 Nov 2010 09:31:43 -0800 (PST), "gnu / linux"
wrote:

On Nov 8, 11:16 am, wrote:
On Mon, 08 Nov 2010 12:04:57 -0500, wrote:
If you watched this old house this weekend you noticed that because of
environmentalists you can't even kill the poison ivy on your own
property any more. Are thay kidding? I'm not sure what state they are
working in; Mass maybe; but it's probably coming to your state.
I think I'll go dig up some lady slippers in protest.

I think we will need more information before we all go into a tizzy
over this info-fragment.

more info would be nice (missed the show) are we just supposed to grin
& bear it (the Ivy) ?

The severe lack of details makes me think the post was maybe not
exactly truthful.

I watched it -- the post is incomplete at best, untruthful at worst.
Most people, in most places, can still remove poison ivy from their
yards.

This particular house is on bank of the Charles River near Boston (so
yes, Mass.) with a 100 or 200 foot zone from the river's edge that has
very restrictred usage. This segment was with an "urban ecologist"
about the native and non-native species and landscape planning. These
particular people, with this particular property, can't remove the ivy
from that particular section *right now*, but will need to submit a
request to the conservation authority, and will likely be approved to
do that (but not, for example, to rip out all vegetation and pave or
plant a lawn to the river's edge).

But it's more fun to make outrageous claims, isn't it?

The party of the perpetually upset.

Jeff

Josh