[APWG] After you use Plateau (fwd)...then what? (fwd)

[Plant Conservation]

Just forwarding a response about Plateau.  Please copy & paste Craig's
address if you want to respond directly to him.

---------- Forwarded message ----------
Date: Fri, 13 Feb 2004 15:07:20 -0800
From: Craig Dremann <craig at ecoseeds.com>
To: Plant Conservation <plant at plantconservation.org>
Subject: After you use Plateau (fwd)...then what?

RE: After Plateau and after the removal of cheatgrass...then what?

Dear All,

I didn't see anything in that posting about Plateau and its use against
cheatgrass that discussed the day-after.

I know Pleateau has been suggested as the solution for cheatgrass, but
after you have sprayed the cheatgrass, especially during the multi-year
drought that the Great Basin has been experiencing
<http://www.drought.unl.edu/dm/monitor.html>, what do you get?  Bare
earth, that becomes the new spot for another exotic plant to recolonize?

I believe the better route is skip the herbicides, and go directly to
ecological restoration of the local native bunchgrass communities on the
land that the cheatgrasses currently occupies.  You can see photos of a
possibility of that future at http://www.ecoseeds.com/greatbasin.html

"Look, no cheatgrass!...and miles and miles of local native grasslands"

Sincerely, Craig Dremann, Redwood City, CAlifornia (650) 325-7333