Connecticut invasive bill moves forward

The Connecticut House and Senate will hear an invasive plants bill this spring. The bill extends a prohibition on towns banning plants another five years, said Bob Heffernan, executive secretary at the Connecticut Nursery and Landscape Association. It allows the movement of banned invasive plants for eradication and research purposes. It “empowers inspectors from the state’s experiment station and agriculture department to look for banned plants in companies selling plants,” he said. It also removes water lettuce from the banned list.

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April 2008