Article: Tamarisks in the Purgatoire: This time, it's war: Agencies band together to fight the water-guzzling tree and its thirsty cohorts.

Byline: Mike Garrett

Mar. 5--TRINIDAD - Numerous public and private sector agencies have declared war on the invasive proliferation of the exotic, water-gulping tamarisk, or salt cedar, trees and woody plants along Las Animas County's mostly eastern Pugatoire River watershed. A native to Eurasia, the tamarisk is known to absorb up to 200 gallons of water per tree per day (twice that of the native cottonwood tree). It chokes out other native vegetation, widens floodplains by clogging stream channels, decreases wildlife habitat, increases sediment deposition and diminishes human environmental enjoyment and interaction. The list of group partners seeking to ...

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