Craig Carlton Dremann

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Native seed mix failures-Are projects sowing individual species instead?

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 6,418 11 View

Soil nutrient and organic matter thresholds for native plants, any research?

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 2,066 3 View

CHEATGRASS--Is it really an invasive plant, or does it only grow in soils that grazing lowered the soil nutrients below threshold needed by natives?

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 2,559 11 View

Two questions--About your link, and about removal of soil nutrients?

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 4,979 3 View

Exotic plants or animals evolving into new species?

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 8,115 18 View

Is anyone producing the mathematical models of non-riparian plant ecosystem functions?

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 4,728 2 View

Are Pseudomonas bacteria living on tropical trees creating monsoon rain clouds?

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 6,669 36 View

Anyone study the Pakistan-Arabia Dust Cloud impact on cyclones or rainfall?

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 589 18 View

Is anyone comparing the genetic sequence of teosinte (Zea mexicana) with corn?

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 9,677 3 View