Abstract
G. Groening and J. Wolschke-Bulmahn's Landscape Journal article, which attempted to connect native-plant enthusiasts with Nazism, is analyzed. The attempt to link ecologists with fascism is shown to be based on fallacious assumptions centering on a prejudice against ecological design, which these authors clearly believe to be anti-democratic. The rational reasons for supporting the use of native plants are delineated, and issue is taken with Groening and Wolschke-Bulmahn for portraying this design methodology as an irrational cult. The authors' confusion of landscape aesthetics with landscape ecology is discussed. Finally, their likening of exotic-plant management to Hitler's Final Solution is placed in the context of recent trends towards anti-environmental belief and rhetoric.
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