Fwd: Importation of Plants for Planting; Establishing a Category of Plants for Planting Not Authorized for Importation Pending Pest Risk Analysis - Proposed rule

Tony Avent tony@plantdelights.com
Fri, 24 Jul 2009 12:27:21 PDT
Adam, Lee:

You point out the absurdity of such a regulation.  If this was in place, 
we would not have thousands of plants that we enjoy today from impatiens 
to lantana.  The best models miss 40% of the plants.  Any intelligent 
scientist will tell you that it is impossible to predict invasiveness 
for each habitat within each ecological region.  I had a meeting a 
couple of years ago with one of the scientists developing this and we 
had this same discussion.  Off the record, he admitted that it couldn't 
work, but he said that his superiors were demanding it, based on the 
rants from radical groups such as the Nature Conservancy, who has taken 
an ethnic cleansing stand on this issue.   Everyone needs to call USDA 
Aphis and their legislatures before it is too late.

Tony Avent
Plant Delights Nursery @
Juniper Level Botanic Garden
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Raleigh, North Carolina  27603  USA
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Adam Fikso wrote:
> It surely could be a problem.  A plant that's invasive ihn Florida can 
> barely survive in the Chicago area, or be grown only in a greenhouse.,  If 
> this isn't taken account of --the effort is stupid--example:  Bomarea
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> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "Lee Poulsen" <wpoulsen@pacbell.net>
> To: "Pacific Bulb Society" <pbs@lists.ibiblio.org>; 
> <IBSMEMBERS@yahoogroups.com>
> Sent: Thursday, July 23, 2009 2:03 PM
> Subject: [pbs] Fwd: Importation of Plants for Planting; Establishing a 
> Category of Plants for Planting Not Authorized for Importation Pending Pest 
> Risk Analysis - Proposed rule
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>> I just got this notice. Is this proposed new category and rules
>> something we should be worried about? It kind of sounds like a good
>> effort to control the entry of potential new weeds or pests. On the
>> other hand, would it make it inordinately difficult to import something
>> that we all know is perfectly safe?
>>
>> --Lee Poulsen
>> Pasadena, California, USDA Zone 10a
>>
>> -------- Original Message --------
>> Subject: Importation of Plants for Planting; Establishing a Category of
>> Plants for Planting Not Authorized for Importation Pending Pest Risk
>> Analysis - Proposed rule
>> Date: Thu, 23 Jul 2009 12:31:24 -0400
>> From: PPQ_Stakeholder_Registry@aphis.usda.gov
>> To: wpoulsen@pacbell.net
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>>                  Greetings PPQ Stakeholders,
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>>                  You are receiving this email alert because you signed up
>>                  with USDA-APHIS-PPQ's Stakeholders' Registry to receive
>>                  information related to the importation of plants.  If you
>>                  would like to have your name removed from the
>>                  Stakeholders Registry list please send an email  to
>>                  Linda.Toran@aphis.usda.gov.  If you would like to make a
>>                  change in your topics of interest please go to:
>>                  https://web01.aphis.usda.gov/PPQStakeWeb2.nsf.
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>>                  We are proposing to establish a new category of regulated
>>                  articles in the regulations governing the importation of
>>                  nursery stock, also known as plants for planting.  This
>>                  category would list taxa of plants for planting whose
>>                  importation is not authorized pending pest risk analysis.
>>                  If scientific evidence indicated that the taxon of plants
>>                  for planting is a potential quarantine pest or a
>>                  potential host of a quarantine pest, we would publish a
>>                  notice that would announce our determination that the
>>                  taxon is a potential quarantine pest or a potential host
>>                  of a quarantine pest, cite the scientific evidence we
>>                  considered in making this determination, and give the
>>                  public an opportunity to comment on our determination.
>>                  If we received no comments that changed our
>>                  determination, the taxon would subsequently be added to
>>                  the new category.
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>>                  APHIS will consider all comments received on this Docket
>>                  No. APHIS-2006-0011 on or before October 21, 2009.
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>>                  For additional information go to:
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>> http://regulations.gov/fdmspublic/component/…
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