Look out for these dangerous hitchhikers | Opinion
Updated Apr 08, 2021;
Posted Apr 08, 2021
Assemblyman Eric Houghtaling, chair of the Assembly Agriculture and Natural Resources Committee, is sponsoring a bill to create a five-member Invasive Species Task Force that would prepare a plan to guide New Jersey’s response to spotted lanternflies and other harmful species. (Photo courtesy of Lawrence Barringer, Pennsylvania Department of Agriculture.)
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By Eric Houghtaling
In the past year, we’ve come to associate the word ‘quarantine’ with staying home to slow the spread of COVID-19. Many New Jerseyans may not know much of the state is under a very different kind of quarantine aimed to protect our crops, native plants and agricultural industry from a dangerous invasive species.