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relocating to California
Mail the plants to someone out there and if you dont know anyone, mail
them to someone who can keep them alive until they can ship them to you. Plants survive large ziplocks with a couple of wet paper towels quite well. On Wed, 23 Jul 2003 16:13:09 -0500, "John T. Jarrett" wrote: I have driven to LA a couple of times. I can guaran-d__n-tee you, on I-10, they have STOP Signs at the border to California! Permanent signs...looks like toll booths....but they don't want your money...just your plants...Stop signs on the highway! We stopped, the fella asked if we had any fruits or vegetables, we looked at him funny and said, 'No!?!?!?' He said, 'Ok' and we drove on. About as weird as getting stopped at a border guard temporary check-point this side of El Paso coming home and being asked if everyone in the car was from the US! Anyway, they will definately ask and they will definately throw them on a pile of potted plants on the side of the road. That said, I've never taken plants in so I wouldn't know how to get them past the border. Maybe a phytosanitation certificate from a local grower? John "Hope Munro Smith" wrote in message .83... (Frankhartx) wrote in : 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. |
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