Mexico’s mistletoe crisis: Is el muérdago the kiss of death?

Ten years ago, I visited a city park in the Guadalajara Metro Area that a group of enthusiastic volunteers was transforming into a bosque-escuela, an “arboreal school,” where they would someday be able to teach the public all about three different kinds of forest. Hundreds of sticky seeds Throughout the park, they had planted many trees, and as we walked among these saplings, the environmentalis…