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(From a Certified Wildlife Biologist): Whenever people talk about controlling invasive species they are usually misleading... the fact is that most species have already "contaminated" most other places in the world - that's nature! (especially with humans around to help carry living things all around the world) Usually "exotics" simply don't/won't thrive in the "foreign" environment; sometimes an "exotic" DOES comes along and start to out-compete the "native" species and... guess what that isn't the first time this has ever happened - this is nature and it's how a particular assortment of species "came to be" in a certain place... survival of the fittest.... who are we to say at what point in-time a particular "assortment" of species in a particular area is to be defined as "native" and "what's supposed to be there?" "Controlling invasive species" is just a misleading cover for "man/government attempting to control nature" (or perhaps man-made nuclear waste). Think about it... this isn't the first time the U.S. west coast has ever been exposed to Japanese seaweed or barnacles
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