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History in the United States

First cultivated in Germany in 1736, Russian-olive was introduced into the U.S. in the late 1800s, and was planted as an ornamental, and subsequently escaped into the wild. Until recently, the U.S. Soil Conservation Service recommended Russian-olive for wildlife planting and windbreaks.

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U.S. National Park Service Weeds Gone Wild website

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