If it is 79 feet in length or longer, and neither military nor recreational, the EPA is going to restrict some of your activities near the U.S. Coastline.
It's all in the interest of preventing invasive species of fish, animal and plant from invading the U.S. environment.
Perhaps the most famous of those invaders did NOT sneak in by ship. Kudzu was brought in intentionally to help hold the soil in the South. It's still doing that, and providing a lifetime of careers for Roundup salesmen.
Another, a grass that is contributing to fires and ruining hundreds of thousands of acres across the South is cogon grass. It DID hitch a ride in the early part of the 1900's and got a foothold in Alabama and other Gulf Coast States. Now it's spreading northward.
It's all in the interest of preventing invasive species of fish, animal and plant from invading the U.S. environment.
Perhaps the most famous of those invaders did NOT sneak in by ship. Kudzu was brought in intentionally to help hold the soil in the South. It's still doing that, and providing a lifetime of careers for Roundup salesmen.
Another, a grass that is contributing to fires and ruining hundreds of thousands of acres across the South is cogon grass. It DID hitch a ride in the early part of the 1900's and got a foothold in Alabama and other Gulf Coast States. Now it's spreading northward.
Put Scott Beason on the job as Environmental Commissioner. He doesn't like aliens!
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