Tamarisk, a Eurasian shrub, is your classic invasive species-designated one of America's "least-wanted" plants by the National Park Service. In recent decades, it has spread along southwestern riverbanks, replacing native trees such as willows and cot-tonwoods. For nature lovers in the region, tamarisks (also known as salt cedars) rank somewhere between Land Rovers and U.S. Senator fromrnOklahoma James Inhofe. Measures to thwart them include burning, herbicides, and "tammy whacking" (physical removal sometimes done by freelance volunteers). A few years ago, the U.S. Department of Agriculture let loose thousands of leaf-eating Asian beetles to sic them on tamarisks, which die from the defoliation.
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机译：Tamarisk是一种欧亚灌木，是国家公园管理局（National Park Service）指定的美国“最不需要”植物之一，是您的经典入侵物种。近几十年来，它已沿西南河岸扩散，取代了诸如柳树和轻木的原生树木。对于该地区的自然爱好者来说，柳（也称为盐杉）位于兰德罗弗和奥克拉荷马州詹姆斯·因霍夫的美国参议员之间。阻止他们采取的措施包括焚烧，除草剂和“捣烂”（有时由自由志愿人员进行物理清除）。几年前，美国农业部放宽了数以千计的食叶亚洲甲虫在柳上的选择，这些柳因落叶而死。
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