Botanists battle aliens in Acadia park
The plant busters, an elite team of national park botanists, had come to the Great Meadow on a whirlwind mission to search and destroy some of the alien, invasive species that have put down stubborn roots in the park.
"The more you look, the more you see," Betsy Lyman of the Northeast Exotic Plant Management Team said while pointing out an undulating green sea of alder buckthorn saplings. "It's an endless task."
The scrubby alder buckthorn saplings immigrated from Europe sometime after the 1800s, she said.
They spread rapidly and may be detrimental to the local wildlife in part because their large purple berries are attractive to birds but don't provide nearly the amount of nutrition that Maine's native berries, like the winterberry, do.
"For birds, it's kind of like eating junk food," Linda Gregory, Acadia National Park botanist, said. "This is not great wildlife food."
Read the full article from the Bangor Daily News
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