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RE: [iowa-native-plants] RE: a worrisome news item

I think Lon Crosby identified the real issue with your statement "x
dollars to manage y acres while meeting z mandates".

This argument can go round and round about good, bad, cheap, expensive
because not everyone has the same definition of x, y, and z.  If we know
(for example) that there is $10,000,000 (x) to manage 150,000,000 acres
(y) and our goal is to prevent the introduction/spread of noxious weed
species by stabilizing and restoring degraded lands with native species
by 2010 (z); then we can begin a discussion of resource utilization,
strategy, and the appropriate tools.  Within this framework we may
decide optimum locations for local genotype and other areas that we can
use zone hardy species and even other areas that may need temporary
erosion control until more work can be accomplished.

Given all that, what are some other definitions for "z"?

Kris Knudsen
Ext: 5683

	-----Original Message-----
	From: Lon Crosby [l*@starband.net]
	Sent: Thursday, February 20, 2003 12:47 PM
	To: James Trager; iowa-native-plants@list.uiowa.edu
	Cc: prairie@hort.net
	Subject: Re: [iowa-native-plants] RE: a worrisome news item


	What don't you understand about resource utilization, be it
either money or time? Establishing native plantings is more expensive
than just planting European grasses. To start with, the seed is more
expensive (even if you are willing to accept pure stands of
switchgrass). Using chemicals is an unexplored issue and depending upon
your goals (or definition of a prairie) impossible. And if you don't
actively manage the plantings during the first few years, you risk
losing that investment. Failure to provide ground cover for erosion
control also puts you at risk for environmental pollution (and fines).
So you have x dollars to manage y acres while meeting z mandates.

		----- Original Message -----
		From: James Trager <J*@mobot.org>
		To: 'Lon Crosby' <l*@starband.net>  ;
iowa-native-plants@list.uiowa.edu
		Cc: prairie@hort.net
		Sent: Thursday, February 20, 2003 10:34 AM
		Subject: RE: [iowa-native-plants] RE: a worrisome news
item


		 " adding more native plantings makes the problems worse
"

		HUH!? I think I speak for many when I say that this is
the statement that most needs explanation among the ones you've made,
Lon.

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