<DIV>Hi Marla,</DIV>
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<DIV> We have no access to this book.It will be helpful if you share the thoughts given in this book.</DIV>
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<DIV>regards</DIV>
<DIV>Pankaj Oudhia<BR><BR><B><I>Marla Emery <memery@fs.fed.us></I></B> wrote:</DIV>
<BLOCKQUOTE class=replbq style="BORDER-LEFT: #1010ff 2px solid; MARGIN-LEFT: 5px; PADDING-LEFT: 5px">Friends,<BR><BR>For a wonderful, scholarly treatment of the questions discussed here see<BR>the chapter on weeds in:<BR><BR>Crosby, Alfred. 1986. Ecological Imperialism: The Biological Expansion of<BR>Europe, 900-1900. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.<BR><BR>Cheers,<BR>Marla<BR><BR>Marla R. Emery, Ph.D.<BR>Research Geographer<BR>Aiken Forestry Sciences Laboratory<BR>705 Spear Street, P.O. Box 968<BR>Burlington, VT 05402-0968<BR>(802)951-6771 ext. 1060<BR>http://www.fs.fed.us/ne/burlington/nontimb<BR><BR><BR><BR>"Center for <BR>Sustainable <BR>Resources" To <BR><SUSTAINABLERESOU <br rlb14@cornell.edu,>rces@hotmail.com> MPWG@lists.plantconservation.org <BR>Sent by: cc <BR>MPWG-bounces@list <BR>s.plantconservati Subject <BR>on.org RE: [MPWG] eat the weeds <BR><BR><BR>02/02/2005 08:21 <BR>PM <BR><BR><BR><BR><BR><BR><BR>Bob, I have to disagree with with your statement about
concern over using<BR>unwanted plants that you refer to as "invasive". Actually that is what<BR>needs<BR>to happen and will eventually happen with all of these plants at some<BR>point.<BR>They will become useful. If you go back far enough eliminating plants<BR>viewed<BR>as invasive at some point there would be no plants in north america. Lets<BR>not discriminate also. We need to get rid of apples, brown trout, tomatoes,<BR><BR>cabbage, and on and on. What we are really talking about is a political<BR>system applied to nature that puts political timelines on species which<BR>have<BR>always moved about with or without mans help. When plants first arrive on<BR>new land they become dense monocultures and can at first cause havic.<BR>Eventually they come under control and just add to the biodiversity. If you<BR><BR>really think about it you will realize that is true. Nature finds ways to<BR>bring things back into line.<BR>As a knifemaker I use all sorts of materials and my favorite is
multiflora<BR>rose. This past weekend I sold three hunting knives with multiflora grips.<BR>It is a truly beautiful wood with exotic grain and it is very hard. I am<BR>running out on this farm between this use and the fact that both cattle and<BR><BR>goats eat it. It is very high in protein as a forage. The deer like it<BR>also.<BR>It helps as successional plants in old fields returning to forest and then<BR>it gets shaded out as the canopy develops. These do gooders will do far<BR>more<BR>harm and waste a lot of time and money killing such plants than any harm it<BR><BR>could ever cause. The problem with the presence of too many of any kind of<BR>plant has more to do with poor land management than anything. As a<BR>certified educator of Holistic Resource Management certain principles apply<BR><BR>that are unchanged over the eons. The way these plants behave is nothing<BR>new. Fred Hays<BR><BR>>From: Bob Beyfuss <RLB14@CORNELL.EDU><BR>>To:
MPWG@lists.plantconservation.org<BR>>Subject: [MPWG] eat the weeds<BR>>Date: Wed, 02 Feb 2005 16:40:45 -0500<BR>><BR>>I think eating weeds is a good idea, many of them are far more nutritious<BR>>than their cultivated counterparts, i.e. dandelion. I will send her lots<BR>of<BR>>recipes from an Extension bulletin I wrote in 1977. I am not so sure<BR>>publishing recipes for invasive plants is a good idea. The reason we have<BR>>some of these plants today is because they were purposely introduced as<BR>>food crops for us or cattle, i.e., Kudzu. As recently as last year I saw<BR>>garlic mustard seed for sale in a catalogue as an edible green.<BR>>Bob<BR>><BR>><BR>>_______________________________________________<BR>>MPWG mailing list<BR>>MPWG@lists.plantconservation.org<BR>>http://lists.plantconservation.org/mailman/listinfo/mpwg_lists.plantconservation.org<BR><BR>><BR>>To unsubscribe, send an e-mail to
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