[APWG] NEWS: Windfall needed to wipe out invasive species

[ialm at erols.com]

Regarding:  "nvasive species and habitat researchers would have preferred
grants over loans, of course, but they still hail the legislation because
it could provide the financial resources needed to fight exotic species at
the early stages of invasion, before removal costs get out of control."

My earlier version of the bill states:

13 
FLO10055 S.L.C. 
on which a qualified organization receives  
a loan under paragraph (1), the qualified  
organization shall repay to the Secretary of  
the Treasury an amount equal to not less  
than 25 percent of the amount of the loan  
(including interest at a rate less than or  
equal to the market interest rate).

To me this is 4/1 matching funds.  Cheers.

Marc Imlay
board member MAIPC
vice president, Maryland Native Plant Society.

Original Message:
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From: Olivia Kwong plant at plantconservation.org
Date: Fri, 12 Mar 2010 09:14:10 -0600 (CST)
To: apwg at lists.plantconservation.org
Subject: [APWG] NEWS: Windfall needed to wipe out invasive species


http://www.lasvegassun.com/news/2010/mar/11/windfall-needed-wipe-out-invasiv
e-species/

Windfall needed to wipe out invasive species
By Stephanie Tavares
Thursday, March 11, 2010 | 2 a.m.

Everyone agrees that Southern Nevada needs to get rid of the quagga 
mussels that threaten to ruin Lake Mead, the foreign grasses that fuel 
wildfires and salt cedars that steal precious water and choke out native 
wetland vegetation.

See the link above for the full article text.


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