Dr. Phillips has completed his 2003 Pierson's Milkvetch report. Good reading, you need to be armed with the facts.
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Note to US Fish & Wildlife: This plant should NEVER have been listed. Watch for a court summons in your inbox soon...we're coming after you!

Greg

Interesting reading!

[quote]OHV damage to seedlings was recorded during the 2003 surveys. Seedlings
affected by OHVs totaled 1.3% of those counted. Most of these were not killed or visibly
damaged; seedlings pop back up after being run over or stepped on. The survival of many
times that many seedlings was jeopardized by natural conditions, predominantly
desiccation from root exposure due to sand erosion. Of the 83 surviving perennial plants,
five (approximately 6%) showed evidence of OHV damage, consisting primarily of
broken branches that did not kill the plants or prevent them from flowering and producing
seed. As in 2002, we noted many dead, upright plants that had died from desiccation and
showed no effects whatever of any impact from OHV use. OHVs may damage or kill
some plants, but by far most mortality is the result of natural causes, usually inability to
survive the hot, dry summer season.[/quote]