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

[Wayne Tyson]

What would be the cost per pound?

Where would it come from?

What/which species?


WT


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Craig Dremann - Redwood City Seed Company" <Craig at astreet.com>
To: "Wayne Tyson" <landrest at cox.net>
Cc: <apwg at lists.plantconservation.org>
Sent: Sunday, August 08, 2010 10:01 PM
Subject: Re: [APWG] Annual Great Basin meeting, follows BLM path it already 
set?


> Dear Wayne and All,
>
>>
>> How about a link to the BLM proceedings of the 2000 meeting?
>
> I do not know where the link is, but the 2000 meeting was the Great Basin
> Restoration Initiative, and the Boise office of BLM was leading it,
> because that office does all of the bulk seed buying for the whole Great
> Basin, for sowing after fires.  Up to 2 millions pounds of seed is
> puchased each year, to sow on BLM Great Basin lands.
>>
>> Has there been one for the last ten years?
> Have not heard of one.
>>
>> What, exactly, was the $3 million spent on?
> http://www.ecoseeds.com/2.3million.html outlines all of the test plots
> and experiments that were paid for by the $3 million, to figure out a
> way to sow native seeds in the place of exotics.
>>
>> Do I interpret you correctly that another such meeting (actually "annual
>> meetings") is your SUGGESTION, not something already planned?
>
> Yes, annual meetings to talk about Great Basin grasslands is my 
> suggestion.
>>
>> 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.
>
> My website lists the pounds of each exotic seed that was purchased by BLM
> for the Great Basin in 2002, at
> http://www.ecoseeds.com/juicy.gossip.six.html.
> I got those numbers with a FOIA that I made through BLM.
>
>>
>> PS: How many acres will 500,000 pounds cover?
>
> At 10 polunds to the acre, 50,000 acres, or about 100 square miles, that
> are each year, permanently converted to perennial exotics, or at least
> until the next Ice Age scrapes them off, or until we convert those areas
> back to local natives.
>
> Sincerely,  Craig Dremann (650) 325-7333
>>


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