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Keene committee accepts invasive‑species education recommendations after residents describe public‑health and budget risks
Summary
Residents and staff urged education and volunteer action to limit spread of knotweed, wild parsnip and other invasive plants; Public Works warned a full removal program would overwhelm the city budget. The committee accepted the conservation commission’s recommendations as informational.
Members of the Keene Municipal Services, Facilities & Infrastructure Committee on the evening heard residents and staff describe a growing problem with invasive plants along waterways and roadside frontage and accepted, as informational, recommendations focused on education and volunteer management.
Bob Milliken, a member of the Hogback Mountain Conservation Group, described two plants that he said pose both ecological and human‑health risks. “There’s a wild chervil and wild…
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