RE: [RC] Interesting article on Spread of Weeds by Horses - Kristen A Fisher
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Thanks Bob - I vaguely
remembered it was a northern Midwest type place ;-)
I'll be interested to see if they define invasive
the same as the Dominican study - as well as the results of
both.
Kristen
From: ridecamp-owner@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
[mailto:ridecamp-owner@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Bob
Morris Sent: Wednesday, February 22, 2006 10:31 AM To:
'Kristen A Fisher'; KimFue@xxxxxxx; ridecamp@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject:
RE: [RC] Interesting article on Spread of Weeds by Horses
Kristen:
The AERC Research Grants Committee is
sponsoring a study by the University of Wisconsin titled Are horses responsible for invasive plants in the eastern United
States?
The interim results are proving similar to
the study being conducted by Dominican. There has been several updates on this
work in the EN and we expect to see additional articles soon.
Bob Morris
Chair, AERC Research Grants
Committee
Bob Morris Morris Endurance Enterprises Boise, ID
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On Behalf Of Kristen A Fisher Sent: Wednesday, February 22,
2006 8:29 AM To: KimFue@xxxxxxx;
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Spread of Weeds by Horses
I know this reply is
about 2 weeks old but I have been confined to reading revenue-related emails
and not RC so I am just catching up on this. Can someone remind me what grants AERC has funded
to to similar studies and where? I thought the Grant Committee had approved
something like this a while back and can't remember the details - it would
be interesting to compare procedures and results.
Also, it seems weird
to me that all the "alien invaders" they reference are from other
*continents*. I would suspect that horses are not the ones bringing these
weeds from abroad???
And just to throw in
a ringer, I saw a feature about this issue on TV a few months
ago:
Granted, this is more
of a cash crop than noxious weeds, but the irrigation and terracing systems
they are carving into the land are very disturbing - along with the
automatic weapons.
