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23-07-2003, 10:02 PM

(Frankhartx) wrote in
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From: Hope Munro Smith
Newsgroups: rec.gardens

Does anyone have experience with the border check point and what the
procedure is? I don't want to bring a bunch of plants and then have
them thrown out at the border, I'd rather give them away. Thanks for

Border check point? Is California now another country? If it has
border check points then it ought to be..

They do indeed have check points:

BORDER STATION INSPECTIONS

Vidal Border StationAgricultural inspections on all private and
commercial vehicles are conducted at sixteen border inspection stations
located on major highways throughout the State (six at the Oregon border,
five at the Nevada border, and five at the Arizona/Mexico border).

More than 33.5 million vehicles were monitored at the California border
agricultural inspection stations in the 2000 calendar year, including
24.5 million automobiles, 6.5 million commercial trucks, more than 706
thousand recreational vehicles, and more than 40 thousand commercial
buses. These figures represent an eight percent increase from the
previous year.

There were over 70 thousand lots of prohibited plant material intercepted
at the border inspection stations. These lots were infested with plant
pests and/or were not properly certified for entry into California. More
than 5 thousand samples of suspected pests were submitted by border
station staff to the Department's Plant Pest Diagnostics Branch for
identification during the year.

Serious pest finds in the Year 2000 included gypsy moth, imported fire
ant, boll weevil, Mexican fruit fly, zebra mussel, pecan weevil, Japanese
beetle, Oriental fruit fly, Mexican fruit fly, European corn borer,
burrowing nematode, musk thistle and diffuse knapweed.