[PCA] Ecosystem functions--must be connected with human survival

[Craig Dremann - Redwood City Seed Company]

Dear All,

I am currently a consultant for a farm project in Haiti and also studying
the lack of any vegetation in parts of India and Pakistan is creating
drought this year, worldwide.

In Haiti, the lack of native ground cover can be seen from Google Maps or
Google Earth images, and that is very similar to what I saw when I did my
Megatransect of 3,000 miles from California to South Dakota and back.

Continent-wide in the USA, we stripped off the original native ground
cover from the Atlantic to the Pacific, and the current massive drought
across the country is not helping matters.

The issue of native plant cover or exotic cover on the land, only get into
people's minds when human survival is threatened.  That is where India and
Pakistan comes into view.  Parts of those lands are bare, which creates a
Dust Cloud that blocks the summer rainfall that is supposed to move
westward and rain on our fields here in the USA.

In the past, native cover, exotic cover, or the lack of cover, was mostly
a local issue, for the local people to sort out.  However, when the native
cover is taken off the land at key points, like in India, Pakistan and
Arabia, then we all suffer across the planet.

You can see the impact of the lack of cover, at
http://www.ecoseeds.com/2012drought.html.

That is why I am setting up a test plot right now in my part of
California, in the hills of Palo Alto and Los Altos Hills, to see about
getting 99.5% native cover established between now and February 1 next
year.

And that is why I am negotiating with local public land managers to do the
same, to restore the original native cover on our public lands, at
http://www.ecoseeds.com/midpendeal.html and
http://www.ecoseeds.com/postdeal.html

The people of the wealthy nations must start right now, to expend time and
some serious money to get the native cover back on their own lands, so the
successful technologies that are invented here can be shared with other
countries--especially those areas whose lands are key for all of our
survival, and for the rainfall all our farms need every year.

Sincerely,  Craig Dremann (650) 325-7333