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Native seed mixes have been used by several Federal agencies in the Western USA for 75 years, mostly sown after fires. For example, one agency, the BLM, is currently spending $25 million a year to...
30 December 2018 6,428 11 View
I discovered 25 years ago, that if you test the top 5 cm of soil from around seedlings of a native plant population, you can produce a "Reference Threshold" for the soil nutrient in PPM and the...
23 December 2018 2,076 3 View
25 years ago while replanting a 100-mile gas pipeline north of Reno in BLM lands in a cheatgrass area, at http://www.ecoseeds.com/greatbasin.html discovered that the exotic animal grazing had...
23 December 2018 2,569 11 View
1- Outsides "are not authorized to access this page" for the link you listed. 2-When you remove the milk or the cattle from the land and eat them, do you remove soil nutrients??? In California,...
06 December 2018 4,987 3 View
In California we have over 1,000 exotic plants that have become naturalized and exotic animals like the Argentine ant in California, lives a very different lifestyle than in its original country....
08 December 2014 8,132 18 View
In California, serpentine soils contain unique native species, and also contain some of best examples of wildflower fields, but when projects like pipelines go through, there do not seem to be any...
02 November 2014 7,207 15 View
By observing the monsoon rain clouds as they form over tropical Asian and West coastal Indian forests, the Pseudomonas bacteria coming off plants of those areas appear to be able to produce cloud...
08 October 2014 2,505 4 View
On every spot where any individual exotic plant gets established, it is causing what I call "Spatial Extinction" of the local native plants on the spot that the exotic plant is occupying. We...
26 September 2014 1,732 7 View
In non-riparian plant ecosystems, if you measure percentage plant cover, mathematical models and equations could be produced, to describe the spatial interactions between plant species. Is anyone...
19 September 2014 4,735 2 View
I have been observing that when monsoon moisture moves over certain tropical forests located in SE Asia or India, rain clouds with very long streaks form. Has anyone studied if this is caused by...
18 September 2014 6,678 36 View
There are two Dust Clouds that form each year, the first over the Pakistan-Arabia area and the second over North Africa, which interact and deflect the moisture from the summer monsoon. The...
31 August 2014 752 10 View
The Pakistan-Arabia Dust Cloud seems to be more powerful than a Category-5 cyclone like GONU, that you can see at http://www.ecoseeds.com/GONU.html, http://www.ecoseeds.com/newGONU.html and...
08 August 2014 600 18 View
In California we have over 5,000 species of native plants, and no lands so far set aside to preserve those native plants in managed refugia, where the exotic plants are managed to help protect the...
08 June 2014 8,426 5 View
It has been long speculated that teosinte is the ancestor of modern corn, maybe by crossing teosinte with another grass to produce modern corn. Anyone comparing the genetic sequence of teosinte...
12 May 2014 9,694 3 View
My studies of the interplay between the monsoon moisture and the daily location of the atmospheric dust, indicates that the dust controls the floods and droughts in the region from India to...
12 May 2014 7,530 5 View
The Monarch is on the brink of extinction in the USA in 2014 due to loss of the wild milkweed plants that it needs to reproduce and survive, from droughts and lack of protection of those habitats...
16 March 2014 425 3 View