[PCA] Economic Competitiveness of Natives

[A & T Schrum]

The front end cost of using natives may be higher, but after you factor 
in the dollar losses caused by the spread of exotics, natives are 
cheaper.  The USGS estimated that the proliferation of exotic invasive 
species cost Americans $137 billion EACH YEAR.  This figure is from 2002 
and is probably much higher now.

--Theresa Schrum
www.eco-tlc.com

Steve Erickson wrote:
> I don;'t know of any formal evaluation, but my experience is
> that that using native species in the context of performing
> ecological restoration is always more expensive. Of course,
> using exotics for restoration is an oxymoron. If your talking
> about the relative cost on a per plant basis (for both seeds
> and plants), natives are more expensive.
> -Steve
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>> natives, cost-benefit analysis of natives vs. non-natives, or
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>> Thank you,
>> Megan
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>> Megan Haidet
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