[RWG] Native American supplier in NM dealing exclusively in Native Grasses

[Patricia_DeAngelis at fws.gov]

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CLOVIS, N.M. - Brothers Blake and Tye Curtis, Cherokee, have taken the
small
grass seed company started by their father in 1956 and turned it into a
multi-million dollar organization. They co-own Curtis & Curtis Inc. which
now deals exclusively in native grasses. The Western United States is their
main territory
Because wild plants tend to be heartier than cultivated native plants,
there
is a significant movement to use native products collected in the wild for
planting at disturbed sites. The native plants and wild seeds hunted and
harvested by Curtis & Curtis are used to restore natural cover to gaping
wounds in the earth left by strip mining, highway and pipeline
reconstruction, drilling activity, windmill installations and a multitude
of
other assaults.

http://www.indiancountry.com/content.cfm?id=1096410646

Information from:
Non-timber Forest Product News
www.nnfp.org
Digest Issue 6
April 16, 2005
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Editor Penny Frazier,
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