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I farmed land along 3/4 mile of the Toulumne River. We were inundated with elderberry plants that spread like gossip. They were carried in the mouths of birds eating the berries(seeds), which they then planted along fences or buildings. The roots also spread like bermuda and johnson grass underground. The weed itself hard to stop and can be such a hindrance to many things, even wooden fences sheds. But again to say just like the owl that can only live in one tree, the endangered species act continually holds nature down to man's level of intelligence