Article: GREEDY TAMARISK TARGETED OWENS WANTS PLANT GONE, BUT SOME ASK, WITH WHAT MONEY?(City Desk/Local)

Byline: Todd Hartman

ROCKY MOUNTAIN NEWS

A fast-spreading, water-gulping invasive tree is under attack from Gov. Bill Owens, who wants the culprit eradicated from the state within a decade.

Known as tamarisk, or saltcedar, it's considered the most destructive plant in the American Southwest and has long been the target of landowners, public land management agencies and wildlife advocates. Now, with the drought straining water supplies, Owens and other western politicians are out to get the moisture-greedy plant.

Introduced to the western United States more than a century ago, tamarisk has invaded all the state's major river basins, ...

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