[APWG] Annual Great Basin meeting, follows BLM path it already set?

[Wayne Tyson]

Craig (and all):

How about a link to the BLM proceedings of the 2000 meeting?

Has there been one for the last ten years?

What, exactly, was the $3 million spent on?

Do I interpret you correctly that another such meeting (actually "annual 
meetings") is your SUGGESTION, not something already planned?

Where is the list of sources for the information, such as the amount of 
alien seed planted? I'd like to see a table, or raw data if that's all 
that's available.

WT

PS: How many acres will 500,000 pounds cover?


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Craig Dremann - Redwood City Seed Company" <Craig at astreet.com>
To: <apwg at lists.plantconservation.org>
Sent: Friday, August 06, 2010 10:24 AM
Subject: [APWG] Annual Great Basin meeting, follows BLM path it already set?


> Dear Wayne and All,
>
> My suggested annual, Great Basin 1/2 million pound of exotic seeds to 1/2
> million pounds of local native seeds, follows what BLM has been planning
> to do for at least a decade.
>
> I attended the first meeting in Boise in 2000.  In the last decade, BLM
> got a USDA grant of $3 million to find out how to plant native perennials
> in the place of the annual weeds, like cheatgrass, that you can see at
> http://www.ecoseeds.com/2.3million.html
>
> It would be nice to hear from all the Great Basin BLM people on this
> server, and to hear from the Washington Office BLM folks, and the Federal
> Highways people that they want to seriously go forward with this
> conversion, from sowing 1/2 million pounds of exotics on our public lands
> and highways, to using only local native seeds?
>
> I think a gradual weaning off of the exotics, like 100,000 pounds less per
> year, might get the BLM and Federal highways, then in five years, it
> possibly could be 100% native seeds?
>
> Sincerely,  Craig Dremann (650) 325-7333
>
>
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