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• To: "Lynn PACE" <l*@camalott.com>, "Arnold G DAVIS" <a*@aol.com>, "Lee (h) STONE" <l*@austin.rr.com>, "Evelyn MERZ" <e*@hal-pc.org>, "Gene HEINEMANN" <P*@aol.com>, "Suzanne Tuttle" <t*@ci.fort-worth.tx.us>, "Steve AREY" <s*@fws.gov>, "Mary Thorpe PARKER" <m*@xmail.utexas.net>, <prairie@mallorn.com>
• Subject: Fw:
• From: "* S* <g*@swbell.net>
• Date: Sat, 27 Mar 1999 10:24:44 -0600

-----Original Message-----
From: Geoffrey Stanford <gstanf@swbell.net>
To: prairie@mallorn.com <prairie@mallorn.com>
Date: Friday, March 26, 1999 9:51 PM
Subject: Re:


>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: Stephen Louis Winter <swinter@ksu.edu>
>To: Prairie L <prairie@mallorn.com>
>Date: Wednesday, March 10, 1999 1:51 PM
>
>
>>The following book chapter gives the figure of 4% of tallgrass remaining.
>>
>>Steinauer, E. M. and S. L. Collins. 1996. Prairie ecology - the tallgrass
>>prairie. In F. B. Samson and F. L. Knopf, Prairie conservation: preserving
>>North America's most endangered ecosystem. Island Press.
>>
>>This chapter also has a table that quantifies the historic amount (ha),
>>current amount, and percent decline for each State and Province in the
>>tallgrass region.  The source of this information that they cite is
>>
>>Samson, F. B. and F. L. Knopf. 1994. Prairie conservation in North
>>America. Bioscience 44:418-421.
>>
>>
>>On Tue, 9 Mar 1999, Mary Jane Hatfield wrote:
>>
>>> A friend asked me...
>>>
>>> "I had a message from a woman asking for documentation (a
>>> source to site) for the statements :
>>> 1- Native prairie soaks up ~12 inches of precipitation/hour ---
>>> 2- less than 1% of native prairie is left in Iowa
>>> the number I usually hear is "less than .1 of 1% or less than 1/2 od 1%
>>> of Iowa's native prairie remains"
>>> I think how they define native prairie is important in backing the
>>> numbers-"
>>>
>>> Can anyone be of help?
>>>
>>> Thanks.
>>>
>>> MJ Hatfield
>>>
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