In the early 1900s, a United States plant explorer tested Japanese kudzu near Washington, D.C.; later promoted for soil protection, the “wonder plant” spread across millions of acres of the South | World News
A United States plant explorer tested Japanese kudzu near Washington. Image credits: Wikimedia Commons Kudzu was no accident of nature: federal agencies promoted it and paid for it, and the evidence shows an ecological impact that is real but smaller than the legend suggests. The Soil Conservation Service, created in 1935 as a USDA agency…