[PCA] Wildflower Seed Postcards, only 1/1000th as bad as the Federal government? mix"

[Becky Erickson]

Once again -
Lets keep seeds with the people who know what they are and where to put 
them.
Picture post cards and clearly presented educational material would be 
productive for the newly initiated. Once a person learns enough, he each 
will ask where to obtain and how to use native seed and plants for 
successful results. This issue seems easy enough to resolve.

 The secondary chatter seems to strongly condemn the inclusion of 
non-natives, and natives going to the wrong regions, and the lack of correct 
planting instructions. Can we also get a strong educational program for the 
distributors of seed mixes? Is there a possibility of legislating the sale 
of native seed cleaned to exclude non-natives even in miniscule amounts?

Becky Erickson
PO Box 496
Ashland MO 65010-0496
 "Unless we change direction, we are likely to end up where we are 
aded."   -- Chinese proverb

----- Original Message ----- 
From: <Don_MacLean at fws.gov>
To: "Steve Erickson" <wean at whidbey.net>
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Subject: Re: [PCA] Wildflower Seed Postcards, only 1/1000th as bad as the 
Federal government? mix"


|I have to agree with Steve ..........  IMHO, these seed postcards should
| not be sold at all in National Park gift stores.  There is just no way to
| know who would buy them or where they would end up.
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|                                       Postcards,   only 1/1000th as bad
|                                       as the Federal government?  mix"
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| > As to the seed postcards, the parks should and can have
| rules for their
| > giftshops not to sell anything that could be a potential
| problem.
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| Just to reiterate my previous point, because visitors to any
| given National Park may come from Albania to Zanzibar, with
| stops in Michigan and Mauritania on the way, there is no way to
| know what could be a potential problem.
| -Steve Erickson
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