Update to previous post on the Invasive Species bill:
The Conservation Federation of Missouri (CFM) has made it easy to take action. Here’s a link to their automated letter generator. For those living in U City, it will likely set that up to send to Rep. Joe Adams.
Here’s the notice from CFM:
“HB 2412, the Invasive Plant Bill, will soon be voted on in The Missouri House of Representatives We urge you to contact your state representative right away and urge them to vote in support of the bill.
Several state agencies like the Missouri Department of Conservation, Missouri Department of Natural Resources’ Division of State Parks, along with other city, county, state, federal, and NGO land managers have had to develop programs to remove invasives at a great cost in time and public resources.
This bill aims to prohibit future sales and intentional distribution in Missouri of five invasive plant Species: Burning bush, Callery pear, Climbing euonymus (also known as wintercreeper), Japanese honeysuckle, and Sericea lespedeza.
If passed, enforcement may take effect January 1, 2026, with the exception that burning bush and Callery pear plants acquired by a licensed Missouri wholesale or retail plant nursery before January 1, 2025, would be exempt from enforcement until January 1, 2028.”
