Pampas Grass

One website will give you ten reasons to love pampas grass. It is beautiful; it is tough; it is cheap. That's three of them. Another website is entitled, "Beware of Pampas Grass." It grows tall, and keeps growing, it will take over, and has very sharp-edged leaves. From its home in Argentina it is invading the coast of California. Wildlands maintenance crews are out on the beautiful cliffs of Highway 1, the ones with magnificent views of the ocean, spraying "Roundup" on all they can reach. "Are you all right?" "Yes, that was quite a hike." "How far down did you go?" "See where that pampas grass is blowing in the wind, deep in the canyon, on the edge of the abyss." The California Wildlands Grassroots Fund was established to support the heroic efforts of activists to preserve California's wildlands."