Article: Hold the salt (cedars), please: Tamarisk groups tap root of problem.

Byline: Chris Woodka

Oct. 9--The bad news: The Arkansas River is the most heavily infested area for tamarisk in Colorado.

The good news: There's still a chance to get it under control.

"When you look at a map, there are only a few spots above 50 percent," said Shelley Van Landingham, assistant district forester for the Colorado State Forest Service at La Junta. "There's still a lot of native vegetation. As we control it, hopefully it will fill in behind with native plants."

Van Landingham is co-chair of Tackling Tamarisk on the Purgatoire, which formed one year ago and met recently at the Southeastern Colorado Water Conservancy ...

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