[PCA] BLM-USFS sows 1/2 mil+ LBS. exotics/year--what about theExec. Order???? new policy "Just Say NO"?

[Harper-Lore, Bonnie]

UPDATE:  The trucks are NOT rolling to the warehouse with the new book,
sorry to say.
The print-ready project is now of the shelf, awaiting long overdue
funding from Congress.
We are just one more agency that works under a continuing resolution
without our funding.
I will send out an announcemnt as soon as the books Are rolling to the
warehouse.
Craig, I appreciate you letting people know; but we have an unforseen
gliche.  Please
DO NOT call the warehouse.

Thanks guys......really sorry for the delay at FHWA.

Bonnie
Restoration Ecologist
Wetlands and Ecosystems Team
FHWA USDOT, HEPN-30
400 Seventh St. SW, Room 3240
Washington D.C. 20590
(651) 291-6104
 

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From: native-plants-bounces at lists.plantconservation.org
[mailto:native-plants-bounces at lists.plantconservation.org] On Behalf Of
Craig Dremann
Sent: Wednesday, May 09, 2007 11:12 AM
To: apwg at lists.plantconservation.org;
native-plants at lists.plantconservation.org
Subject: [PCA] BLM-USFS sows 1/2 mil+ LBS. exotics/year--what about
theExec. Order???? new policy "Just Say NO"?

Dear All,

I just got in the mail, the latest edition of "GREENER ROADSIDES," a
free quarterly publication from the Federal Highway Administration,
edited by Bonnie Harper-Lore <mailto:Bonnie.Harper-Lore at fhwa.dot.gov>

This latest edition is about the new FHWA publication that is coming out
this month "ROADSIDE WEED MANAGEMENT"  No. FHWA-HEP-07-017 that you can
order by calling next week (301) 322-5377, and it is FREE! 

The trucks containing this publication, are on their way to the DOT
publications warehouse right now, and the warehouse will start taking
names and addresses to ship out the free copies, next week, after the
books arrive. 

In this edition of GREENER ROADSIDES, on page 6 there is a "Weed
Awareness Chronology", starting in 1795, when Vermont designated the
first noxious weed, Canada thistle.   

The year of 1977 in the chronology, reminds all of us, of President
Jimmy Carter's Executive Order 11987 directing Federal agencies to
restrict introduction of exotic species into natural ecosystems.

Isn't that exactly what the BLM and USFS been doing, when they purchase
at least 1/2 million pounds of exotic seeds every year, to sow into the
natural ecosystems on our public lands?  

Maybe someone from BLM or the USFS can tell us, how is that Exec. Order
being ignored, or was it just forgotten?

Sincerely,  Craig Dremann, Redwood City, CA (650) 325-7333

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