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As I am prone to, I shall offer another view on a story I read here first. I'll skip any further reference to the water hyacinth, as reported on by Tara, and just call a spade a spade. The damn things are water lilies, and nothing more or less than a pain in the ass, and originally a product of some well meaning world traveller who spied them in a river in Asia or South America (depending on which story you believe), and thought they would be a "pretty" addition to some unnamed stream in Florida, Louisiana, or Texas. Bottom line: as usual, it is not nice to mess with mother nature. Story I got from my dad, was that after the water hyacinth was introduced, and proceeded to do what it does, which is to multiply exponentially and choke local streams, some "expert" in his moment of brlliance, deduced that the logical next step, was to import nutria, which are rumored to eat the damn water lilies..........well one brilliant screw-up begat another, and now we...
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