Letter to the Editor: Help your neighbors by managing invasive weeds

When walking in my neighborhood today, I counted over a dozen species of non-native plants in neighbor’s yards. These plants are ahead of our natives in growth, flowering, and producing seeds. When left, seedheads dry up allowing seeds to release into the soil for more weeds next year and creating more litter to flame wildfires. The unpulled plants spread into neighboring yards, creating bigger patches next year and more risk for fire spread.

The city now says there is greater fire risk in town than out of town! Why? Perhaps people are too busy to pull weeds, but consider the risk of fire, the loss of beautiful flowering native plants to weed competition, and the unneighborly act of your weeds spreading into your neighbor’s yard and beyond.