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Re: a worrisome news item

Hard to believe these guys had the nerve to show up at a scientific
gathering to spout off like that. Hard to believe they were given a venue.
Who invited them to speak, I wonder?  Guess they will be hiring a lobbyist
next.

Lee Stone
Bastrop, TX

on 2/17/03 3:01 PM, James Trager at James.Trager@mobot.org wrote:

> This link to a disturbing news item from "Nature Science Updates" shows that
> the proponents of creating a homogeneous, low-diversity, and
> tedious North American landscape (through sales of cheaply grown non-native
> seeds) are becoming threatened by the rising interest in the replanting of
> native grasslands, and trying to justify their flawed reasoning with an air
> of science! Looks to me like the issue is pure economics.
> 
> http://www.nature.com/nsu/030210/030210-20.html
> <http://www.nature.com/nsu/030210/030210-20.html>
> 
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