The Foreigners Invading Canada
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 19 ต.ค. 2018
- This video is for my wife, who gets her passport this year. It is for my niece, who will some day call this her home. For Mamie, who sacrificed so much to bring us to this frozen country.
Since today's episode is just a throwaway between seasons, we've decided to go more artsy than usual. As ever, leave your impotent rage in the comments below.
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idk what you'd even talk about but if you ever do a video on Milton that'd be dope.
"The only way to kill it is a chemical so poisonous it kills everything in its wake"
Not exactly. I've worked with teams removing Frag from the American aide of Lake Erie. We use a water-soluable anti-cellulose spray. It's lethal to plants in the same way a fluid that dissolves bone would be to humans. It does not harm other forms of life at all. And while it does take the endangered natives mixed in along with the Frag, there are places the Frag has not touched yet that native populations will spread from to re-claim the scorched earth. Also, in what is nothing short of a miracle, our efforts also left the seed bank of the deep mud untouched, which after Millenia of native growth but only a few decades of Frag, caused the re-growth of native plant species in diversity not seen in hundreds of years, some of which were thought to be extinct.
It's also not just about "invaders". It's about biodiversity. Switching out one native plant for Frag wouldn't be a problem, but it replaces dozens at a time.
This is not an insolvable problem, but it is an expensive one. The spray costs money and so do the $15/hr interns that were hired to spray it. Support your local ecological groups!
Well holy shit this was beautifull
Well what a tale of irony, selfishness, intention and unscuprutility if the word exists
Chris hadfield = your dad?
Can't travel to exotic location this week.
Does heavily metaphorical monolog about cultural acceptance and integration anyway.
Never change.
verdatum yes like the very exotic country of Albania ;)
sometimes you just want to return home
Erik S not my point my dude
Wow this was such a fascinating episode. And even more amazing that it’s connected so personally with your family history. Keep up the amazing work! Proud to be a Patreon supporter.
I recognized that painted log pile from your dad's "In Canada" video, so I wasn't surprised to learn this was shot around your family's cottage. Learning a bit of the Hadfield history was an unexpected bonus. Thanks for sharing that, Evan -- it was a privilege. :)
I've been having a rough time lately, but these videos have really helped me. I watch them at night when my emotions become too much. Your calm voice, your methodical and descriptive storytelling calm me. Thank you.
That's a good way to put it !!
I was trying to find the right words after the last Rare Earth video !!
Is it me or did you up your sound game? Crisp quietness and cricket sounds, your VO on point, yummm!
We're trying something new, yeah. Less music, more natural shot noises. We'll see how people like it.
i at least like it a lot, always keep improving and we'll notice
I like it
I love it.
well this "new" is excellent! keep it up!
THIS IS ME LEAVING MY IMPOTENT RAGE
Your way of Narrating would make the slow paced action of sludge dripping down a wall be captivating, cheers and thank you for these videos!
The argument to keep phragmites is not dissimilar to that of Japanese barberry, a plant that leafs out first in the spring shading the native plants that come along later. Their branches sharply barbed and their fruits uneaten by birds or animals, the plant spreads in thick mats killing off forests. But then we've discovered that migrating birds have taken to eating the berries and now native birds have also taken it as a supplemental food-crop and now we don't know what to do with it. Leave it to feed the birds, who crap out the seeds further spreading this unstoppable invasive or remove it where we can and let the birds go hungry for a few years until suppressed native plants return?
Your channel makes me feel like an adult which is often too rare for media these days. Thanks for that.
Had the range of Japanese barberry spread via natural processes such as gradual changes in weather patterns or birds that held their poop for longer periods of flight-time, then the environment at some further place would change slowly, allowing time for other plants and animals and insects to make their own adjustments to the new-comers - and there are always new-comers. The land is not static and that forest you walked through changes over time to be something it wasn't when it started.
But when natural environments change as rapidly as they do with introduced species such as phragmites, barberry, Asian long-horned beetles or, in my neck of the woods, Asian carp, the natural environment doesn't have time to adjust and a lot of bad things happen.
With the barberry, as an example, nothing eats it here in the northeast US because we don't have the bugs they have in Japan that controls its growth there. Having no natural enemies nor plants that grow out sooner, as they also have in Japan, the plant will very quickly take over a forest. Once introduced and established, come back five years later and five after that to watch your forest disappear right before your eyes. We saw this happen with the woody aldegid, also an introduced species, and the demise of US hemlock forests.
Yes, the land changes, but it doesn't do so in ten years, it does so over long periods of time through the gradual evolution of what lives in there in accepting newer species.
Another fun fact about barberries: their foliage is so thick that they make the ground below dark and moist. In other words, the perfect habitat for Lyme disease-carrying ticks. Areas heavily infested by barberry also have significantly higher levels of Lyme.
I was admiring how well eloquently poetic you sounded when for some reason I decided to take a quick look at the video description. “As ever, leave your impotent rage in the comments below”. You won me over with that, buddy. You now have another subscriber 🇨🇦👍🏻.
If there's such a thing as click bait audio, this channel is definitely it.
brain orgasm
150+years long, 1 world wide😘
I never understood the phrase "as American as apple pie" but I think I finally do. I always felt like people claimed that apple pie was an actual American thing. I always got annoyed because how is it anymore American than Canadian or Dutch? Now I understand that that is the point. Apple pie is as generic as it can get. People made it American/Canadian/Dutch because they embraced it like their own.
That being said, I still think that a lot of Americans saying it don't understand how generic it is and think it's only theirs. Thank you. Zo Nederlands als appeltaart!
Edit: formatting, changed angry to annoyed
Well apples came from Asia, so they are all wrong
chrisisteas Strange thing to get upset about. As an American, I never assumed that apple pies were automatically an American creation because of that phrase. I assumed it was because baking pies and leaving them in a window was a common image associated with people wanting to have a happy, peaceful home - suburban tranquility, as it were. Thinking about that now, I would speculate it grew out of marketing images aimed at vets utilizing the GI bill post-WWII, probably based on Norman Rockwell paintings or something like that. I would also hazard to guess we had a lot of apple orchards, as well - which would certainly popularize apple pies. But I never, even as a child, assumed we INVENTED apple pies.
According to this article, the phrase originated much earlier in the mid 1800s.
www.huffpost.com/entry/why-are-we-as-american-as_b_6227462
But isn't doing the Chekov as american as it can get? "Ah, but apple pie was eenvented in Mitterchen Ro..., erm Murica". ;)
Luke, now that you mention it, I've never actually researched the origin of apple pie. Thank you.
A great episode and your most personal yet.
It's amazing how people seem to think that they can live in isolation from the rest of the world when the world is becoming more and more interconnected.
As usual, it's about perspective. If you're going to persist in looking at everything in a negative way (like the reeds) then any benefits are overlooked, ignored or misinterpreted.
Canada has always been a country that works better in practice than it does in theory and one of the reasons is a willingness to adapt. Is there room for improvement? Always. But to improve something, change needs to be embraced, whether it be deliberate (a change in official policy) incidental (increased ship traffic evolving life on the island) or accidental (the introduction of the European reeds that have changed the ecosystem of the island).
You can either surf the waves of change or drown in them, but you can't ignore them.
Loved it. A quiet retrospect that has me thinking about my French and First Nation ancestors and our history in a quiet area of Manitoba, just a stone's throw away of the migration routes that opened the west.
Lovely. What a testament to how cottage country can push one to philosophical explorations. Be artsy all you want; the analogies were on point, the message clear, and the pun at the end perfect. Very timely.
Towards the end I had a difficult time making out what's being said but I turned up the volume and rewound the video. This may be the most relaxed state a person has been in while doing a monologue and being video recorded- respect.
I’m partly First Nations from Alberta, Canada. Yes negative things have happened... Luckily stuff is getting better. There’s still many things needing to be fixed.
Less than twenty years ago, more than 600 years ago.
What does this have to do with the video? Not even 5 minutes after its published, long enough to watch it, and you're already looking for likes. This is the story of the downfall of a farming community that had gone generations back, not of Canadians taking aboriginal lands or whatever you're talking about. It's a very personal story and you're trying to politicize it by bringing exterior commentary into it
They had plenty of time to finish the video by now.
@@Smitty_Werbluntjaegermanjensen I think the metaphor is pretty obvious, although there's no reason it can't also be that story
The story is about invasions old and new, whether they be plant or human, and how we learn to live with the invasions over time.
This might be one of your best videos, good job man.
When you spoke of stowaways in the ballast, I thought you might be about to speak of the Zebra Mussel, or its cousin the Quagga Mussel, or perhaps even the Round Goby; all of them have done billions of dollars of damage to the Great Lakes ecosystem... but yeah, Phragmites, it's awful stuff.
But its also really useful... thatch roofing is made with reeds, the plants filter toxins from the soil (here in the uk we grow beds of them as a sort of sewer system for road side use) it provides shelter for native animals, controls erosion and the biomass is really fertile. Its not too bad if managed
indeed. "managing" it construction and biomass . construct some big fish pounds on the island.! @@mrslinkydragon9910
Zebra mussel has also done alot of good... It's cleaned the water, supported local ecosystems and boosted the fishing economy if money is the only thing you care about
@@Seawiiplay unfortunately, being filter feeders, and really prolific ones at that (they literally have carpeted the beds of the Great Lakes over vast expanses), these mussels have over-cleaned the water such that there are very little micronutrients left in the water column for the native species that occupy that niche, and the larger species that fed on those, cannot feed on the invasive mussels. They also cause huge oxygen-depleted dead zones covering thousands of square miles in late summer early fall when they die & decompose.
@@jamesclaytonbowman5977 In regards to both you and Ben's comment; there seems to be trade offs. I know the Gobi fish is invasive, but it eats the zebra mussels and is also good for the northern water snake. That snake was previously endangered.
Do you know what the precolonial state of the Great Lakes? I'm curious as to whether they were naturally murky or clear.
Amazing history. Your articles are so thought provoking and beautifully written. I share these with many who feel the same way.
My favourite video in a long time. I think being artsy fits your stories, don't be afraid of it please
One of favourite videos from you so far. Thought-provoking, beautifully shot (though kinda dark to me) and very personal. Awesome.
And lol "As ever, leave your impotent rage in the comments below."
Stag Island is a beautiful place. My wife and I were wondering about the history of the island after the wedding in September, and the little canals dug around when we went exploring. Thanks for this!
Your voice was so mellow...I thought I was watching a episode of 20/20. It was an excellent episode, very well done.
The best episode you've done so far. Keep up the great work!
This is probably the best rare earth episode yet! I love these sort of untold local history pieces
Any episode of Rare Earth is always great, but since this was close to home, like literally, you could hear it, just that added little boost on top of care and passion you seem to have making each video, it was very nice and heartwarming!!
I saw your father speak in Calgary, AB a couple years back. You are an amazing speaker just like him. Thank you for your videos such as this one. Absolutely great work every single time!
"Liberal Arthouse Nonsense"
"I couldn't follow the narrative so it must be nonsense"
@@BeenSauce it's literally the title of the film don't hate me T T
@@BeenSauce lol what are you defending? The credits call this film "liberal arthouse nonsense"
" As ever, leave your impotent rage in the comments below" is what got me
Shitposting nasty rightwing troll, pushing his political hate whereever he can on the internet.
Brilliant, insightful and wise as always. Thank you for sharing your thoughts and perspective.
As Always, Great Presentation Guys!! Cannot Wait Until I Can Help Support Your Work Financially!!
We have them down here in Pennsylvania. Spent a whole day yanking them out of a pond a few years bag, only for them to return not long later...
Such an amazing story teller. Frank, unbiased. Wished I knew about this channel in the lockdowns! Appreciate it. Good job!
This was so beautiful it brought tears to my eyes (and then you went and made a dadjoke at the end. Oh, well).
Great seeing so many people who don’t know you for who your father is. Your success is your own.
So you went outside and did a video in your yard basically. It was glorious! This just shows us how good you guys are at making videos. Simply brilliant! Thank for the video eh bud!
You're related to Chris Hadfield?
He is his son. :)
He's his son. He also happens to be the executive producer of the episodes, in general. Check the credits :P
@@Stumfilmjatack that's amazing
yeah, he did a bunch of videos that totally ripped off of his dad being an astronaut too. No disrespect or saying that he just took advantage or something, like use any resources you have, and the videos as always turned out pretty good
its very uncommon to see a father and son both be relatively famous, but for completely different things.
This was absolutely an amazing episode. I absolutely love this series. This episode in particular was not only great but gave me so many parallels to governor's island. From the once shallow water ways to the invasive phragmities and even the colonial history. Governor's island was where I went to high school and for the time I was there I enjoyed learning about it's history and ecology. Learning about such a similar and yet different place has made me remember that place evermore. Thank you very much rare earth
Rocking the chair under the porch...
As you keep getting more involved in your videos, digging deeper and really opening yourself, your work keeps getting better. I feel lucky being able to witness your growth.
Under? um, NO.
ON the porch. the floor is the porch. the roof is the roof or overhang. the dog goes under the porch!
It didnt take long to become a subscriber.....WOW !!!!
I'm beyond impressed with your knowledge, curiosity and outstanding clarity !.
Very happy I found you!
Excellent work and videos!!
Much gratitude and love !!💜
Don't forget our version on the west coast, blackberries, blackberries everywhere
One of your best video. Really love the narration of your story, and the moral in it. Thanks!
Could listen and watch content like this all day long. Fantastically well-done.
A very interesting perspective you have on a huge issue surrounding Canada. Ill need to do some more pondering on that note. Thanks for the video!
Yours is probably my favourite channel on TH-cam and this is probably the most intimate and personal, I as a viewer, got to be to you. This one is amazing. I would love to meet you some day and talk. You will probably make an amazing professor. The way you speak, elucidate and enunciate is quite marvellous. I have recommended your channel to so many people and I will certainly continue to do so till I die. Thank you, Mr. Hadfield.
P. S. : Please release your videos in the forms of DVD or something. People can learn a lot from you.
Intriguing video and obviously very personal. Fascinating. Thank you.
thanks for making videos, they are deep and calming
I've been watching 1 or 2 of your videos every night before bed, absolutely love the format and your monologueing... I HAD NO IDEA YOU WERE CHRIS' SON!!! He mentioned in an interview your "influence" on his Bowie cover from space... was planning on going to Cobble Beach this year to see him at the car show
Anywho, love your videos. Keep on keeping on
One of the best series on YT I have ever watched, every episode I learn so much
I love how you connected your family's history with the changing times. It's easy for us to think that things are not changing.
Cheers bro just stumbled on your channel this video was recommended I’ve lived on us side of that island marysville and never got a lesson this good about it
This was such a joy to watch, my pretentious hipster soul loved the artsiness of it all. But beyond that, it's amazing how this episode it ostensibly just about an invasive weed but speaks of much, much more than that. For those willing to read between the lines, this video is extremely topical. And lastly, thank you for a small look into your own life and family history. I can't stress enough how much of a gem this episode is.
Goddamn dude, all of your videos are great, but this one is something very special. Keep it up!
There is something powerful about roots... not just the roots of weeds or plants or crops... I am thinking more about where we live, how we are connected to a place, how a place helps us to become who we are. Born in Boston, I am the first New Englander in our family, my brother and I are the first 'Ramsleys' instead of Olsens, and the first of these 'Olsens' to speak English as a first language. Nearly every distant relative lives in the 'Old World,' and now, as someone later in life -- someone without parents, without uncles, aunts, or cousins anywhere on Earth -- I decided to stay here -- just outside of Boston -- to put an end to wandering -- to put down roots.
thanks for including my translation, everyone should watch this video at some point.
Your writing is very good. Excellent command of the English language. Subject topics are interesting and eclectic. Which has opened my eyes to places and events I would have otherwise never been introduced to.
So, thank you.
Wow I had no idea you were Chris Hadfield's son. Awesome. Your family is doing great things nowadays. It's inspiring. Thanks.
God damnit I love these videos, besides showcasing oddly specific problems and norms, it's informative in just the right amount. It's like the cosmos, but looking in instead of out.
I am SO excited for your Canada storyline. I actually started really traveling and actively discovering the world not too long ago and one thing it did is reopen my eyes for what curiosity and wonders can be discovered in my own homeland and city as well. SOmetimes going far away can also help you discover what's close to home. I hope you'll find find the same for Canda.
That was a wonderfull episode as always. A bit of a heavy handed analogy granted. But one that hits home.
P.S. From farmer (your Granddad) ro Astronaut (your dad) to documentarian & storyteller (you) I would actually be interested to hear about your perspective on the way your family adapted to/changed with the orld around it. If that's too off topic for teh cahnel maybe on Patreon. Just letting you know if you ever feel like telling taht story, we would certainly be interested to listen.
These are so great
Thank you so much
i love your videos so much never stop bringing culture and history to the masses
I don't know about you, but that last shot zooming in on Evan legit gave me the creeps. That looked like the classic weird old man on his porch about to tell you about the haunted house down the street.
Not what I expected, but an EXCELLENT video & family biography. Nice to hear some good, coherent Canadian English. Thanks!
This is rapidly becoming the best channel at the entire site
Evan - you’re an excellent story teller, I look forward to seeing more content.
His creative writing teacher should be proud. I love the way these videos sound like a beautifully articulate conversation.
To each their own -- to me it sound melodramatic, borderline condescending and reminds me a 'Suits' episode where every conversation has to be this dramatic 'mic drop' epiphany that I'm sure sounds super intellectual to the write, but absolutely cringe-worthy to most others. I do enjoy the visuals, though.
This is awesome! I have a cottage on Russell Island just a few miles South! Never thought I'd see a video on our area on this channel!
I love your videos, they’re so poetic
You're a great writer, man. So glad i found your channel.
Nice to see you are home and still doing great work.
This is amazing. (And your home is beautiful.)
I think I just found my new favorite channel. Subscribed. Thank you.
Woow, I'm now in Sarnia for some months and I just have resent saw that island from a boat without any idea of all the history behind it, great video! Great message. I wish I could visit the place now
Nice to learn a little something about my own backyard. Having grown up in the shadow of the Welland Canal, I was quite surprised when you said it was only in the 1960 that they started dredging for laker traffic.
Welcome home, eh!
Your camera drone operator is awesome- That flying loop over the water around the boat was incredible!
this is like, your only video that hasnt made me depressed
Discovered ypur channel aboit a month ago and love it. You travel the world doing these shows, Rapa Nui even...amazing. But not a s amazing as finding out that your father is THE Chris Hadfield, a true Canadian rockstar.
Thanks for this great video. It's nice watching you going around the world and giving your take on various foreign things and places, but I think that you could also start doing the same for the place you know best, your home country! I mean for someone like me (not q Canadian) that's as interesting as a Video about Albania or Vietnam or Japan ^^
Really enjoyed the artsy stile of this one btw; also it was great bc it was very specific and personal.
It made the already awesome day that I had even better ;)
You have an amazing talent of communication---------you help me make sense of everything you explain........please keep up the awesome work and education. This is really the best of u-tube. Thank you so much.........
Duuuude. Being in California this week, at a Native Youth Conference. This is exactly what we were speaking of.
Acceptance that everything outsiders/Immigrants have brought in, destructive or not. Is honestly here to stay
Like. We can push as much as we want and make giant fusses...
Things are here to stay.
Its up to us to decide how to proceed now. How to remain ourselves. Whilst sharing our former homes with everyone.
While asking for the rest of the world to accept that we really do want to keep our old ways, that we want to keep our identities.
Because as much as the world around us changes, we remain. And we want to remain ourselves
Very well said!
@@kampakala1544 I have no idea what you're going on about; but no? I don't want genocide on anyone
@@kampakala1544 That's not how genetics entirely works?
What I am trying to say. Is that as an indigenous person, I've had to come to accept that a variety of people now live here.
Im not going to police or dictate who they should or shouldn't "mix" with.
Particularly when their original country of origin is intact in their own ethnicity
@@kampakala1544 Be at least a little more sensitive in regards to disparaging and belittling the '3 world' migrants. Many of those people just want better lives than what they were born to, lives like those of 'Western' people. Try to consider why you should have such drastically better lives compared to the 3 world children. Is it purely due to your greater merit, or the greater merit of your civilization? Cast your mind back and read some history too. I don't cry and blame you for privilege, just expect you to show some amount of civility to '3 world' people coming to seek better lives in your home when they have historically been much more civil to 'Western' people coming to exploit and loot their homes bare. That, if anything should be your reason to accept 'endless' stream of poor 3 world souls.
On the other hand if you subscribe to the idea of racial superiority (which is kinda hinted by your comment) then I'm sorry for you :))
@Colleen The same reflections are true in Israel/Palestine as well. Change is a universal.
This reminds me of work I did when I was younger. In areas that are attempting to receive recognition as protected wildlife areas sometimes you need to remove the invasive plants. I remember having to pull out flowers that had formed a net of roots under the ground and removing literal fields of garlic mustard and, in some cases, this would remove the plants from the area.
In other more likely cases, they would come back only having pushed them back a foot or two and the process would start again in the spring slowly attempting to push it back with the understanding that if left alone for even one year would most likely push back into the areas that had just been cleared.
I understood that the reason that it was being removed was to allow for the native plant species to grow in but most of the time it felt like it was impossible.
So close to home, yet the story was as rich and colorful as the other exotic lands you travel. Thanks for sharing.
We dry them in the sun and build quite a lot of things with them. I don't know why anyone would hate them. Throw them in the fireplace. It's a raw material waiting to be used. Certainly easier than cutting down a tree. People build garden fences, entire beds with them. A sort of tiki style, you know? Quite a lot of people plant them on purpose...
Reeds, right? yes. i agree.
This is an interesting introspection. I love it.
Evan Hadfield ASMR is something we never knew we need. Until this video appeared.
Greetings from Waterloo, great video dude, really nice to finally see vegetation and ecosystems I’m really familiar with lol.
I hope your channel keeps going and gets more views than it's been getting
Those ending credits are the best thing I have seen/read all month.
Chris Hadfield is one of those people that has made the Internet truly a world wonder. I hope you can follow in his foot steps.
1. I had no idea you were Canadian, I love this channel way more now!
2. I had no idea you were Chris Hadfield's son, that makes you so much more cool!
I enjoy your insights/ interpretations. Bravo!
If there's interest in reclaiming some of the areas overgrown by the common reed, I'd like to suggest mechanically clearing sections and putting in native trees. Native willows and cottonwood both come to mind, since you can literally stick their branches into the ground, and they'll take root and grow into trees.
I did watershed restoration in BC for about a year, and shading out Himalayan blackberry and reed canary grass with native trees was one of our key restoration strategies.
I only picked up on the symbolism in the last minute of the video. Either I'm just dense or you perfectly crafted the script to deliver that satisfying climax.
My great grandparents came from Canada over the water to Michigan. I love these lakes and islands. Great video
The island has been changing for centuries. It is so peaceful, even harmonious. Good work.
dude your videos are amazing
Probably now my favorite video on this channel. I wish I knew as much about my family home
I knew right away that you had a personal connection to this place since your father was born in Sarnia, which is only about 5 miles up the river from Stag Island. If I had known about your channel then, I could have invited you over the Blue Water Bridge for some coffee, but the timing would have been poor, anyway, due to a very personal loss that week.
I love this channel, by the way. It is the greatest example of the promise that TH-cam, and the internet in general, holds. Democratizing the field of educational entertainment at just the time when the old media are falling all over themselves to sensationalize everything in a last gasp to get an ever-aging audience to stay tuned while they die off.
In my eyes, the most to the point Rare Earth yet.
Youre voice is so calming. You should start by "hey! Its me, rare earth" :D
Lovely story, with a touch of irony for me. I've just come back from the South Broads in E Anglia. We are fortunate enough to have a little cruiser with a couple of beds which lives in a tiny boatyard/marina - we certainly could never afford a riverside cottage or even a marina with any facilities beyond a boat shed and chemical loo!
Anyway, part of our trip over the weekend was spent where they're planting more reeds. In one of the broads (they're wide stretches of water linked together with natural rivers and cuttings, initially created by the Dutch about 300 years ago IIRC. Most of the Northern Broads and Fens weren't there in Tudor times, it was under seawater), they've put barricades in a sort of oval shape and planted a few reeds. These are doing their own job filling the new patch up. You may ask why they do this and this is where the irony lies. It's epic for our local wildlife, especially birds. Each section of water inside the barrier had a resident pair of swans. The reeds are also harvestable for thatch which goes on old cottages. But it's the reeds which line the banks, and windmills which pump out water from the fields behind them which turned E Anglia into the UK's breadbasket. Down where we are in the thick, heavy soiled south of the county it's turnips, potatoes and sugarbeet (and pigs. Lots and lots of pigs. Very tasty pigs...). We can't have wheat, we have hills! (E Anglian joke. We were welcomed by our first local landlord to the home of the Suffolk Mountain Rescue Team. We were about 60 feet above sea level. EA'n humour's rubbed off on me, sadly ;-))
I know how an 'immigrant' species can damage things. You think reeds are hardy, try Japanese knotweed which has taken root in my hometown. Parts of the town are nearly impossible to sell houses in because of that stuff, it's pretty much impossible to kill. It, too, has been poisoned, cut, burned... the local university has a major science project on the go trying to find out what will actually kill that stuff - preferably without killing everything and everyone else in town!
Oh yes, one last thing. We couldn't walk the dog at one lunchtime mooring, they were spraying weedkiller to protect the reeds... Go figure.