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<p class=MsoPlainText><b><font size=3 face=Arial><span style='font-size:12.0pt;
font-family:Arial;font-weight:bold'>Regarding, "The only place on the East
Coast where I found an intact understory was in <st1:State w:st="on">Maryland</st1:State>
at the US National Park only 15 miles from <st1:City w:st="on">Washington</st1:City>
<st1:State w:st="on">DC</st1:State> at <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:City w:st="on">Great
Falls</st1:City>, <st1:State w:st="on">Maryland</st1:State></st1:place>.",
I am so fortunate that I lead invasive removals in such parks in Maryland. I
found in preliminary surveys that about one park in five qualifies this way and
I chose those parks to focus on to save the native ecosystems for the future. Cheers<o:p></o:p></span></font></b></p>
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style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy;font-weight:bold'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></b></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><b><font size=3 color=navy face=Arial><span
style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy;font-weight:bold'>Marc
Imlay, PhD,</span></font></b><font color=black><span style='color:black'><o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><b><font size=3 color=navy face=Arial><span
style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy;font-weight:bold'>Conservation
biologist, Park Ranger Office</span></font></b><font color=black><span
style='color:black'><o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><b><font size=3 color=navy face=Arial><span
style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy;font-weight:bold'>(301) 442-5657
cell</span></font></b><font color=black><span style='color:black'><o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy;font-weight:bold'><a
href="mailto:Marc.Imlay@pgparks.com" title="mailto:Marc.Imlay@pgparks.com"><font
color=navy title="mailto:Marc.Imlay@pgparks.com"><span
title="mailto:Marc.Imlay@pgparks.com"><span style='color:navy'>Marc.Imlay@pgparks.com</span></span></font></a><a
href="mailto:Marc.Imlay@pgparks.com" title="mailto:Marc.Imlay@pgparks.com"></a><a
href="mailto:Marc.Imlay@pgparks.com" title="mailto:Marc.Imlay@pgparks.com"></a> <a
href="mailto:ialm@erols.com" title="mailto:ialm@erols.com">ialm@erols.com</a></span></font></b><font
color=black><span style='color:black'><o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><b><font size=3 color=navy face=Arial><span
style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy;font-weight:bold'>Natural
and Historical Resources Division</span></font></b><font color=black><span
style='color:black'><o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><b><font size=3 color=navy face=Arial><span
style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy;font-weight:bold'>The <st1:place
w:st="on"><st1:PlaceName w:st="on">Maryland-National</st1:PlaceName> <st1:PlaceName
w:st="on">Capital</st1:PlaceName> <st1:PlaceType w:st="on">Park</st1:PlaceType></st1:place> and
Planning Commission</span></font></b><font color=black><span style='color:black'><o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy;font-weight:bold'><a
href="http://www.pgparks.com" title="http://www.pgparks.com">www.pgparks.com</a></span></font></b><font
size=2 face=Calibri><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:Calibri'><o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><b><font size=3 face=Arial><span style='font-size:12.0pt;
font-family:Arial;font-weight:bold'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></b></p>
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<p class=MsoPlainText><b><font size=3 face=Arial><span style='font-size:12.0pt;
font-family:Arial;font-weight:bold'>-----Original Message-----<br>
From: apwg-bounces@lists.plantconservation.org
[mailto:apwg-bounces@lists.plantconservation.org] On Behalf Of Craig Dremann -
Redwood City Seed Company<br>
Sent: Sunday, January 30, 2011 8:34 PM<br>
To: apwg@lists.plantconservation.org<br>
Subject: [APWG] SCI AMER. needs many, many replies<o:p></o:p></span></font></b></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><b><font size=3 face=Arial><span style='font-size:12.0pt;
font-family:Arial;font-weight:bold'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></b></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><b><font size=3 face=Arial><span style='font-size:12.0pt;
font-family:Arial;font-weight:bold'>Dear All,<o:p></o:p></span></font></b></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><b><font size=3 face=Arial><span style='font-size:12.0pt;
font-family:Arial;font-weight:bold'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></b></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><b><font size=3 face=Arial><span style='font-size:12.0pt;
font-family:Arial;font-weight:bold'>Writing from the part of the planet that is
the most completely covered<o:p></o:p></span></font></b></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><b><font size=3 face=Arial><span style='font-size:12.0pt;
font-family:Arial;font-weight:bold'>with over 1,000 species of exotic plants,
and its understory between sea<o:p></o:p></span></font></b></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><b><font size=3 face=Arial><span style='font-size:12.0pt;
font-family:Arial;font-weight:bold'>level and 3,000 feet elevation covered
99.99% by those exotics, I think we<o:p></o:p></span></font></b></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><b><font size=3 face=Arial><span style='font-size:12.0pt;
font-family:Arial;font-weight:bold'>need to reply to that magazine about that
perspective.<o:p></o:p></span></font></b></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><b><font size=3 face=Arial><span style='font-size:12.0pt;
font-family:Arial;font-weight:bold'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></b></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><b><font size=3 face=Arial><span style='font-size:12.0pt;
font-family:Arial;font-weight:bold'>Regarding the SCI AMER. article that
Exotics are overhyped, is like saying<o:p></o:p></span></font></b></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><b><font size=3 face=Arial><span style='font-size:12.0pt;
font-family:Arial;font-weight:bold'>that the Black Death in <st1:place w:st="on">Europe</st1:place>
has been overhyped.<o:p></o:p></span></font></b></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><b><font size=3 face=Arial><span style='font-size:12.0pt;
font-family:Arial;font-weight:bold'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></b></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><b><font size=3 face=Arial><span style='font-size:12.0pt;
font-family:Arial;font-weight:bold'>When any exotic plant gets naturalized in <st1:place
w:st="on">North America</st1:place>, that means for<o:p></o:p></span></font></b></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><b><font size=3 face=Arial><span style='font-size:12.0pt;
font-family:Arial;font-weight:bold'>every square foot that the invader
occupies, that is a square foot where<o:p></o:p></span></font></b></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><b><font size=3 face=Arial><span style='font-size:12.0pt;
font-family:Arial;font-weight:bold'>the indigenous native ecosystem is
experiencing extinction.<o:p></o:p></span></font></b></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><b><font size=3 face=Arial><span style='font-size:12.0pt;
font-family:Arial;font-weight:bold'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></b></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><b><font size=3 face=Arial><span style='font-size:12.0pt;
font-family:Arial;font-weight:bold'>After doing my 1997 2,000+ mile
mile-by-mile megatransect at<o:p></o:p></span></font></b></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><b><font size=3 face=Arial><span style='font-size:12.0pt;
font-family:Arial;font-weight:bold'>http://www.ecoseeds.com/megatransect.html
in the western States, the worst<o:p></o:p></span></font></b></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><b><font size=3 face=Arial><span style='font-size:12.0pt;
font-family:Arial;font-weight:bold'>exotics were the intentionally planted
species like crested wheatgrass,<o:p></o:p></span></font></b></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><b><font size=3 face=Arial><span style='font-size:12.0pt;
font-family:Arial;font-weight:bold'>smooth brome, exotic clovers, either by
highway departments or the Federal<o:p></o:p></span></font></b></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><b><font size=3 face=Arial><span style='font-size:12.0pt;
font-family:Arial;font-weight:bold'>government on BLM lands.<o:p></o:p></span></font></b></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><b><font size=3 face=Arial><span style='font-size:12.0pt;
font-family:Arial;font-weight:bold'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></b></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><b><font size=3 face=Arial><span style='font-size:12.0pt;
font-family:Arial;font-weight:bold'>Even worse that the intentionally planted
exotics, where the areas where<o:p></o:p></span></font></b></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><b><font size=3 face=Arial><span style='font-size:12.0pt;
font-family:Arial;font-weight:bold'>the native grass and forb understory was
extinct, leaving vacancies for<o:p></o:p></span></font></b></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><b><font size=3 face=Arial><span style='font-size:12.0pt;
font-family:Arial;font-weight:bold'>new exotics in the future. I found
that to be the case on the East Coast<o:p></o:p></span></font></b></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><b><font size=3 face=Arial><span style='font-size:12.0pt;
font-family:Arial;font-weight:bold'>in the forest understory, and when I did
megatransects in the SE, like<o:p></o:p></span></font></b></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><b><font size=3 face=Arial><span style='font-size:12.0pt;
font-family:Arial;font-weight:bold'>from <st1:City w:st="on">Atlanta</st1:City>
to <st1:City w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Huntsville</st1:place></st1:City>
Alalabam, for example.<o:p></o:p></span></font></b></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><b><font size=3 face=Arial><span style='font-size:12.0pt;
font-family:Arial;font-weight:bold'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></b></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><b><font size=3 face=Arial><span style='font-size:12.0pt;
font-family:Arial;font-weight:bold'>The only place on the East Coast where I
found an intact understory was in<o:p></o:p></span></font></b></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><st1:State w:st="on"><b><font size=3 face=Arial><span
style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Arial;font-weight:bold'>Maryland</span></font></b></st1:State><b><font
size=3 face=Arial><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Arial;font-weight:
bold'> at the US National Park only 15 miles from <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:City
w:st="on">Washington</st1:City> <st1:State w:st="on">DC</st1:State></st1:place>
at Great<o:p></o:p></span></font></b></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><b><font size=3 face=Arial><span style='font-size:12.0pt;
font-family:Arial;font-weight:bold'>Falls, <st1:State w:st="on"><st1:place
w:st="on">Maryland</st1:place></st1:State>.<o:p></o:p></span></font></b></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><b><font size=3 face=Arial><span style='font-size:12.0pt;
font-family:Arial;font-weight:bold'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></b></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><b><font size=3 face=Arial><span style='font-size:12.0pt;
font-family:Arial;font-weight:bold'>I would really hate to see our North
American ecosystems only existing<o:p></o:p></span></font></b></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><b><font size=3 face=Arial><span style='font-size:12.0pt;
font-family:Arial;font-weight:bold'>100-200 years from now, only in the
National Parks, like zoo specimens,<o:p></o:p></span></font></b></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><b><font size=3 face=Arial><span style='font-size:12.0pt;
font-family:Arial;font-weight:bold'>and we do not take action right now
regarding these exotic invaders, and<o:p></o:p></span></font></b></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><b><font size=3 face=Arial><span style='font-size:12.0pt;
font-family:Arial;font-weight:bold'>protect the remaining examples of pristine
native ecosystems that do not<o:p></o:p></span></font></b></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><b><font size=3 face=Arial><span style='font-size:12.0pt;
font-family:Arial;font-weight:bold'>have protection in the next decade.<o:p></o:p></span></font></b></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><b><font size=3 face=Arial><span style='font-size:12.0pt;
font-family:Arial;font-weight:bold'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></b></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><b><font size=3 face=Arial><span style='font-size:12.0pt;
font-family:Arial;font-weight:bold'>Sincerely, Craig Dremann (650)
325-7333<o:p></o:p></span></font></b></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><b><font size=3 face=Arial><span style='font-size:12.0pt;
font-family:Arial;font-weight:bold'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></b></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><b><font size=3 face=Arial><span style='font-size:12.0pt;
font-family:Arial;font-weight:bold'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></b></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><b><font size=3 face=Arial><span style='font-size:12.0pt;
font-family:Arial;font-weight:bold'>_______________________________________________<o:p></o:p></span></font></b></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><b><font size=3 face=Arial><span style='font-size:12.0pt;
font-family:Arial;font-weight:bold'>PCA's Alien Plant Working Group mailing
list<o:p></o:p></span></font></b></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><b><font size=3 face=Arial><span style='font-size:12.0pt;
font-family:Arial;font-weight:bold'>APWG@lists.plantconservation.org<o:p></o:p></span></font></b></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><b><font size=3 face=Arial><span style='font-size:12.0pt;
font-family:Arial;font-weight:bold'>http://lists.plantconservation.org/mailman/listinfo/apwg_lists.plantconservation.org<o:p></o:p></span></font></b></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><b><font size=3 face=Arial><span style='font-size:12.0pt;
font-family:Arial;font-weight:bold'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></b></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><b><font size=3 face=Arial><span style='font-size:12.0pt;
font-family:Arial;font-weight:bold'>Disclaimer<o:p></o:p></span></font></b></p>
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