Unpopular Poplar Trees

For the past week, the poplar trees in the park behind our house have been dropping their fluffs of seeds. Thanks to their reproductive methods, our yard looks like it just received a dumping of fresh snow - everything is white! These poplar fluffs are everywhere! They're stuck in the flyers that come out of our mailbox, they are sucked into the vents of the car and then blown out when you turn on the air, they are stuck to the bottoms of our shoes, and they are clinging to the ass of my uniform. I have had enough and I'm not going to take it sitting down! I recently discovered that these fluffs of seeds are extremely flammable...