This is from a fun article about "alien" plants and animals in North America

quote below from : http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20100402/ap_on_sc/us_plant_invaders;_ylt=AmTYh8XhWlvWaV46FFWZ3OkPLBIF;_ylu=X3oDMTJuYWhsOWg2BGFzc2V0A2FwLzIwMTAwNDAyL3VzX3BsYW50X2ludmFkZXJzBHBvcwMxNgRzZWMDeW5fYXJ0aWNsZV9zdW1tYXJ5X2xpc3QEc2xrA255Y3N0dWR5NTBuYQ--

In the West, sagebrush has been giving way to cheatgrass, which found its way to the U.S. in packing materials and ship ballast in the late 1800s.

Nature lovers strolling through wooded glades, thinking they are among trees that have stood since theRevolution, are actually looking at Norway Maple native to Europe.

Kudzu, which hails from Japan and China, infested the South after farmers in the 1930s through the 1950s were encouraged to use it to stop soil erosion.

Even the pristine open spaces of Grand Teton National Park in Wyoming are now populated with Houndstongue and Yellow Toadflax, both from Europe.

Bit by bit, scientists say, the American landscape is becoming less American.

"We are going to our national parks now and seeing Europe," said Tom Stohlgren, a research ecologist for theU.S. Geological Survey. "We are homogenizing the globe at a very fast rate."

Experts say the trend has many causes, but the biggest one may turn out to be globalization.

Headline for the non-profit HEAT who would attempt to stop such outrage:  Homogeneous Ecologies Are Threats - HEAT

Frish's definition of globalization:  Too Many People, Too Little Nature