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re: Re: *!?#@! CROWN VETCH - reply

Carl - Thanks for your input.  I wish someone would tell people here that...
Crown vetch is a problem at several of our prairie
restorations/reconstructions.  We use native grasses to stop erosion
control here.  It is great to hear that the Iowa DOT is planting native
grasses and forbs.  I hope we can get the same thing done in Illinois.

>Ruth just a quick comment regarding your letter.  Crown Vetch is
>practically worthless as far as erosion control simply because it down not
>provide ground cover beneath its canopy.  Grasses tiller to form sod and
>thus give the best soil protection.  When mixed with a good matrix of forbs
>they have long term community stability.
>
>The Iowa DOT no longer plants it since they found the steep right-of-ways
>were deeply rilled (2 to 3 feet), and now is planting nearly all natives
>grasses and forbs.
>
>From Central Iowa
>
>Carl Kurtz
>
>Carl Kurtz
>515-477-8364
>cpkurtz@netins.net
>
>
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Ruth A. Green, Greenhouse Manager; Supportive Scientist
Illinois Natural History Survey, Center for Biodiversity
607 East Peabody Drive, Champaign, IL  61820
Office:  217-333-7091   FAX:  217-333-6294
Email:  rgreen@mail.inhs.uiuc.edu


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