<br><font size=3 face="sans-serif">Along the lines of restoration with
natives, you might be interested in </font><tt><font size=3>a recent publication
in the July 2011 Restoration Ecology, entitled <i>Plant Community Recovery
Following Restoration in Semiarid Grasslands </i>(Munson and Lauenroth
2011). In short, this project evaluated the extent of plant community and
ecosystem change on land recovering from dryland wheat production, relative
to uncultivated native shortgrass steppe and they estimate that two decades
are needed to achieve full recovery when restoring shortgrass steppe where
agricultural fields once stood.</font></tt>
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<br><tt><font size=3>Perhaps one or both of those authors are on our listserves
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<br><font size=2 face="sans-serif">Patricia S. De Angelis, Ph.D.<br>
Botanist, Division of Scientific Authority-US Fish & Wildlife Service<br>
Chair, Medicinal Plant Working Group-Plant Conservation Alliance<br>
4401 N. Fairfax Dr., Suite 110<br>
Arlington, VA 22203<br>
703-358-1708 x1753<br>
FAX: 703-358-2276<br>
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Promoting sustainable use and conservation of our native medicinal plants.<br>
<www.nps.gov/plants/medicinal><br>
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<td width=40%><font size=1 face="sans-serif"><b>"Craig Dremann - Redwood
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<td><font size=1 face="sans-serif">[APWG] Try and get reveg costs down,
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<br><tt><font size=2>Dear Wayne and All,<br>
<br>
Thanks for your email. I am going to give two different links to
the same<br>
web pages that I have referenced in my email below.<br>
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Unfortunately over the last forty years, I have been a witness to the<br>
failure of many non-riparian native projects planted in California, mostly<br>
because of our massive weed issues that we still do not have a secure<br>
handle on.<br>
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What I am proposing, is to start inventing the methods to bring down the<br>
costs of native non-riparian projects, from the billions of dollar that
it<br>
currently costs, down to the millions of dollars, and hopefully down to<br>
the hundreds of thousands of dollars eventually.<br>
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It is like the original computers in the 1950s, when each computer cost<br>
millions of dollars and filled a whole room, made out of old radio tubes,<br>
like you can see at </font></tt><a href=http://www.ecoseeds.com/talk.html><tt><font size=2>http://www.ecoseeds.com/talk.html
or<br>
</font></tt><a href="http://userwebs.batnet.com/rwc-seed/talk.html"><tt><font size=2>http://userwebs.batnet.com/rwc-seed/talk.html,
plus you only could get 5K<br>
of RAM and 64K of memory out of those huge monsters. Now, we carry
around<br>
cell phones that have 10,000 times the memory, tucked in our pockets.<br>
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That is my goal with both weed management and for ecological restoration<br>
of non-riparian areas, especially the billion acres of the most arid lands<br>
on our planet. Make the restoration process faster, cheaper and higher<br>
quality.<br>
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And also for mitigation projects in the lower 48 States, like pipeline<br>
rights of ways, powerline corridors, Endangered species habitats, public<br>
parklands, mine tailings, gas and oil pads, etc. Basically, any<br>
non-riparian site where you need to restore the local natives, and do it<br>
as cheaply and quickly as possible, and to the very highest standards of<br>
weed-freeness.<br>
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At least in California in Santa Cruz County, at least two properties have<br>
been able to achieve high quality restoration standards, 95% overall cover<br>
at the Shaw 74 acre property, and 99.5% native cover at the Mark Vande
Pol<br>
14 acre property.<br>
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So the next step, is for each State and the Federal agencies to establish<br>
these high quality standards for all non-riparian projects across the<br>
country.<br>
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Then, the second step is to start the conversion of large areas, like the<br>
State of Iowa has been doing for the last decade along its roadsides, by<br>
planting genetically local native grasses instead of the exotics, whenever<br>
there is a planting project is to be done. Or like using local natives<br>
for pipeline rights of way, like you can see at<br>
</font></tt><a href=http://www.ecoseeds.com/greatbasin.html><tt><font size=2>http://www.ecoseeds.com/greatbasin.html
or<br>
</font></tt><a href="http://userwebs.batnet.com/rwc-seed/greatbasin.html"><tt><font size=2>http://userwebs.batnet.com/rwc-seed/greatbasin.html<br>
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When all of our non-riparian projects are held to very high performance<br>
standards, like a minimum of 98% local native plant cover within six<br>
months or less, then, just like the computer industry, we can start to<br>
invent methods to make the restoration costs cheaper, quicker and much<br>
more efficient.<br>
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Sincerely, Craig Dremann (650) 325-7333<br>
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