[RWG] 100 qacres every 15 miles across the country-- preserve the original ecosystems?

[Karen Blumer]

Would be good if some connective ecosystem to defray any checkerboard  
effect.

Karen

Karen Blumer
Author, LI Native Plants for Landscaping: A Source Book
    2011 Revision -- now more like 2012

Growing Wild Publications
15 Dickerson Drive
Shoreham, NY 11786
631-821-3337
growingwild at optonline.net


On Oct 14, 2011, at 12:56 AM, Craig Dremann - Redwood City Seed  
Company wrote:

> Dear Marc and All,
>
> I am proposing that in the USA, we preserve 100 acres every 15 miles  
> in
> each direction, which would be a 1:1400 ratio in exchange for the  
> land we
> use for our purposes?
>
> And that would help preserve insitu the native plant and animal  
> diversity
> we have across the nation.  And perhaps these preserves should be  
> owned by
> the local indigenous peoples?
>
> Plus these areas could possibly be used as carbon sinks for our fossil
> fuel and coal burning, to help sequester some of the carbon that we  
> are
> puitting into the air?  And that those area be restored to 99%
> weed-freeness?
>
> Sincerely,  Craig Dremann (650) 325-7333
>
>
>
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