Invasive Plants: What’s the Problem?

Presenter: Bob Gale, Ecologist and Public Lands Director, MountainTrue

Tuesday, May 9, 7 pm at the UNCA Reuter Center and on Zoom

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Non-native species have invaded our forests, yards and open spaces. These invasive plants with aggressive growth habits are rapidly displacing native plant species and imperiling the local fauna that depend upon them.

Bob Gale has served MountainTrue for 25 years, where he has worked on a broad range of issues affecting forests and rural lands. He leads MountainTrue’s non-native invasive species program and is a member of the NC Invasive Plants Council. His talk will illustrate the problems created by invasives on public lands and in our yards and offer solutions for species of greatest concern. 

“We have allowed alien plants to replace natives all over the country. Our native animals and plants cannot adapt to this gross and completely unnatural manipulation … Their only hope for a sustainable future is for us to intervene to right the wrongs that we have perpetrated.”― Douglas W. Tallamy, Bringing Nature Home