Proposed Bill to Amend the Rules Regulating Invasive Terrestrial Plant

The hearing for LD 1114 has been scheduled for next Thursday, April 27. If adopted, the bill will significantly affect the rules recently adopted by The Maine Department of Agriculture, Conservation and Forestry (DACF) to prohibit the sale and distribution of terrestrial plants that were deemed invasive.

A copy of the rules and the plant list are found on the DACF website on the Horticulture Program/Invasive Plants page of Maine.gov’s Department of Agriculture, Conservation and Forestry website.

Concerned citizens are encouraged to look the proposed bill over (it is very short) and to consider submitting a written testimony as a part of the public hearing process.