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ZMAN :
We are very familiar with this stuff.
BrendaT had a conversation with Fred Flickinger's office and they were made aware of it. The cleaning of Kingwood median days are one start, but those are few and far between. If people would call or write his office, that would have let him know it is a hot topic. We might want to check with the two guys that were clearing last week and see who they are working with. Start a petition for this to be a priority is another possibility.
ZMAN : We are very familiar with this stuff.
BrendaT had a conversation with Fred Flickinger's office and they were made aware of it. The cleaning of Kingwood median days are one start, but those are few and far between. If people would call or write his office, that would have let him know it is a hot topic.
ZMAN : That weed is my husband's worst nightmare. One will pop up and he pulls it out and the next day it's back even longer. I recall watching a show about a murder and it was in the NC area and they call it the "kuduz season" because it is a good place to dump a body. Just FYI😂
CBloch was was of the gentleman who was clearing the underarms. He might be our BobRehak of the underbrush/kudzu. www.kingwood.com/mes sage_board/view_mess age.php?parent_messa ge_id=5587472&p
ZMAN : Yea I started seeing that after Ike- they cleared all the trees and vines along the electric lines and the kudzu took over. It was growing bad along the green belt between the Baptist church and Kingwood Dr in Sand creek . Also in the remote parts of Kings Point by East end!!
ZMAN : Neighbor's lawn company brought potato vine on their equipment. Neighbor would do nothing, even when I explained it would kill everything. I kept pulling it out & placing on her property to give her a message that it needed to be dealt with. She did not comply. It kept encroaching and killed several bushes. It spread fast. I worked on pulling the vine every day.
Do you know what Kudzu is?
"Kudzu is a rapidly growing, invasive vine native to Asia that has become a significant problem in many parts of the United States, particularly the southeastern region. It was initially introduced as an ornamental plant and for soil erosion control, but its rapid growth and ability to outcompete native vegetation have made it a destructive force. "
www.nature.org/en-us /about-us/where-we-w ork/united-states/in diana/stories-i I hadn't really heard of it until recently. Its an invasive weed that is slowly taking over the southern United States, and has already taken hold on many of the trees and trails we value so much here in Kingwood.
If you stop to look around you will see this vine growing literally everywhere. It grows FAST and FULL and chokes out everything else around it (including the trees).
It happened so slowly that most of didn't even notice it but if you know what to look for you will see it EVERYWHERE.
Im not sure what the answer to this problem is, but I think more people should know about it. Its not going to go away and it will continue to get worse and it will kill many trees if its not stopped.
Here are just a few shots I of some bad patches of it on the greenbelt in woodland hills where it is completely choking everything else out. Once you know how to spot it you will see how bad it is.
"Kudzu is a rapidly growing, invasive vine native to Asia that has become a significant problem in many parts of the United States, particularly the southeastern region. It was initially introduced as an ornamental plant and for soil erosion control, but its rapid growth and ability to outcompete native vegetation have made it a destructive force. "
www.nature.org/en-us /about-us/where-we-w ork/united-states/in diana/stories-i
If you stop to look around you will see this vine growing literally everywhere. It grows FAST and FULL and chokes out everything else around it (including the trees).
It happened so slowly that most of didn't even notice it but if you know what to look for you will see it EVERYWHERE.
Im not sure what the answer to this problem is, but I think more people should know about it. Its not going to go away and it will continue to get worse and it will kill many trees if its not stopped.
Here are just a few shots I of some bad patches of it on the greenbelt in woodland hills where it is completely choking everything else out. Once you know how to spot it you will see how bad it is.
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ZMAN : Thank you,
ZMAN! I saw Kudzu destroy many stretches of highway in Georgia, and I know it is a problem. I even wrote Fred Flickenger about it, and he said they were aware of it and trying to address the issue. That is why they are asking for volunteers to help clean it out as they don't have enough money to do that and everything else.www.sciencedirect.co m/science/article/ab s/pii/S0376871615002 616
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