[RWG] New Yellow Sweet clover study technologies instead?

[Craig Dremann]

Dear All,

I just got an email from Laura C. Van Riper, Ph.D., from the University
of Minnesota, that her thesis is available for free from Digital
Dissertations as a PDF file:

http://wwwlib.umi.com/dissertations/

"The role of the exotic legume yellow sweetclover (Melilotus
officinalis) in a low nitrogen system: A potential ecosystem transformer
and facilitator of invasion" by Van Riper, Laura Carol, PhD, UNIVERSITY
OF MINNESOTA, 2005, 177 pages.  AAT 3167718

Yellow Sweet Clover is considered by professional botanists and
ecologists, to be one of the top-ten worst weeds still intentionally
planted on public lands in western North America, by the tens of
thousands of pounds annually, mainly by the Federal government.  

You can read more about intentionally-sown exotics on public lands at  
http://www.ecoseeds.com/juicy.gossip.six.html

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