[APWG] Don't call the DOT warehouse for a couple of months - requests for Roadside Weed Mgmt

[Johnson.Maggie at epamail.epa.gov]

While it's great to be in demand, Bonnie says the DOT warehouse has been
swamped with phone calls requesting our handbook "ROADSIDE WEED
MANAGEMENT".  The warehouse has not received the copies yet so please
give them a couple of months.

Unfortunately there have been many delays in getting the handbook
written and printed (horror stories no one needs to hear!).  I assure
you, it will be worth the wait, but please help us out and refrain from
calling the warehouse for a couple of months!

FYI, I'm one of the editors and helped Bonnie and Mark Skinner, USDA
Plants Database, put the handbook together.

Maggie Johnson, U.S. EPA
OPPT, Risk Assessment Division
EPA East Building Mail Code 7403M
1200 Pennsylvania Ave., N.W.
Washington, DC 20460
202-564-8924  Fax: 564-9063
johnson.maggie at epa.gov


                                                                        
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             05/09/2007 12:11         [APWG] BLM-USFS sows 1/2 mil+     
             PM                       LBS. exotics/year--what about the 
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Dear All,

I just got in the mail, the latest edition of "GREENER ROADSIDES," a
free quarterly publication from the Federal Highway Administration,
edited by Bonnie Harper-Lore <mailto:Bonnie.Harper-Lore at fhwa.dot.gov>

This latest edition is about the new FHWA publication that is coming out
this month "ROADSIDE WEED MANAGEMENT"  No. FHWA-HEP-07-017 that you can
order by calling next week (301) 322-5377, and it is FREE!

The trucks containing this publication, are on their way to the DOT
publications warehouse right now, and the warehouse will start taking
names and addresses to ship out the free copies, next week, after the
books arrive.

In this edition of GREENER ROADSIDES, on page 6 there is a "Weed
Awareness Chronology", starting in 1795, when Vermont designated the
first noxious weed, Canada thistle.

The year of 1977 in the chronology, reminds all of us, of President
Jimmy Carter's Executive Order 11987 directing Federal agencies to
restrict introduction of exotic species into natural ecosystems.

Isn't that exactly what the BLM and USFS been doing, when they purchase
at least 1/2 million pounds of exotic seeds every year, to sow into the
natural ecosystems on our public lands?

Maybe someone from BLM or the USFS can tell us, how is that Exec. Order
being ignored, or was it just forgotten?

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

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