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<div><div><br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></div><div><br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></div><div>On Oct 14, 2011, at 12:56 AM, Craig Dremann - Redwood City Seed Company wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite">Dear Marc and All,<br><br>I am proposing that in the USA, we preserve 100 acres every 15 miles in<br>each direction, which would be a 1:1400 ratio in exchange for the land we<br>use for our purposes?<br><br>And that would help preserve insitu the native plant and animal diversity<br>we have across the nation. And perhaps these preserves should be owned by<br>the local indigenous peoples?<br><br>Plus these areas could possibly be used as carbon sinks for our fossil<br>fuel and coal burning, to help sequester some of the carbon that we are<br>puitting into the air? And that those area be restored to 99%<br>weed-freeness?<br><br>Sincerely, Craig Dremann (650) 325-7333<br><br><br><br>_______________________________________________<br>PCA's Restoration Working Group mailing list<br><a href="mailto:RWG@lists.plantconservation.org">RWG@lists.plantconservation.org</a><br>http://lists.plantconservation.org/mailman/listinfo/rwg_lists.plantconservation.org<br></blockquote></div><br></div></body></html>