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Hi , my name is Emma and I am seven

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years old . If I could buy a spa K for

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an apple store , why is it so bad for

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the environment ?

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Hi , Emma . That is an excellent

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question . My name is Bev Lawrence and

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I'm a retired biologist with the Corps

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of Engineers and here we are at the

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beach . So the birds who are great at

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spreading the asparagus fern because

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they're highly attracted to these red

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berries , spreads them all over . They

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come down here at the beach , hang out

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and is happening is the asparagus fern

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is taking over our native plants and in

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taking over the native plants , it's

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making it difficult for gopher tortoise

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to find their food and it is getting in

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the way such that they sometimes have

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to cross the road and potentially get

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hit by a car or it forces them into a

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neighbor's backyard in which there may

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be a dog or something . So , what we're

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trying to do is keeping our dune

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systems natural and we don't want these

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invasive plants such as asparagus fern

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to be here . Another reason is the dune

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systems naturally have a lot of open

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spaces and what you want the open

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spaces for is nesting and resting

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shorebirds .