tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3448716.post111453328650542043..comments2023-10-11T06:28:51.492-04:00Comments on Invasive Species Weblog: Jennifer Forman Orthhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09541113905903121231noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3448716.post-1114607213878318942005-04-27T09:06:00.000-04:002005-04-27T09:06:00.000-04:00I concur completely! I felt like I was watching M...I concur completely! I felt like I was watching MTV. And as an ecologist, I laughed when I saw Claudia's "field clothes."Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3448716.post-1114600238872351092005-04-27T07:10:00.000-04:002005-04-27T07:10:00.000-04:00Wonderful review. I think you hit on every concern...Wonderful review. I think you hit on every concern I had for the program, although I was only able to sit through half of it. I was expecting to see some actual information on invasives, not just some artistic interpretation of the problem. In fact, it was 12 minutes before they even mentioned the name of a single species (I timed it). The time up until that point was spent, like you said, "showing pretty pictures for people with short attention spans." The segment on the Formosan subterranean termite really bugged me (no pun intended), because they only mentioned the full name of FST once, and the rest of the time they just talked about the problems that "termites" caused while showing footage of houses collapsing, never bothering to distinguish between native and nonnative species. Boy, if there was ever anything to make people think that invasive species aren't a legitimate problem, it was this program.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com