On Sun, Mar 17, 2002 at 09:52:47PM -0600, MH wrote: > "The danger to wetlands would come from dryness as well as heat. > W. Carter Johnson, professor of ecology at South Dakota State University, > found that if temperatures increase 3.6¡F to 7¡F, precipitation > would have to increase 10 to 25 percent to maintain the current status > of wetlands. [32] But if increases in precipitation come in winter alone > or in severe downpours, soils may dry anyway. Some computer projections > show a loss of 50 percent or more in summer soil moisture. > Johnson expects wetlands could be choked with cattails, which would reduce > the habitat quality and number of ducks. Many wetlands might be lost > completely." > from - Minnesota's Wetlands and Prairies > http://www.me3.org/issues/climate/withfire2002-06.html
Hot damn! Cattails galore! Of course, that fellow's well considered opinion couldn't forsee the fantastic fortune awaiting the lowly cattail, the biofuel dream crop! It ain't that those nasty cattails are going to wipeout the "native wetland" (hmm, aren't they also saying that about that other northamerican native grass "reed canary grass" ??? What a sick joke! And if you can't figure out how to harvest cattail commercially, I guess you better not get into the commercial rice business, eh? -- Harmon Seaver CyberShamanix http://www.cybershamanix.com ------------------------ Yahoo! Groups Sponsor ---------------------~--> FREE COLLEGE MONEY CLICK HERE to search 600,000 scholarships! http://us.click.yahoo.com/iZp8OC/4m7CAA/ySSFAA/FGYolB/TM ---------------------------------------------------------------------~-> Biofuel at Journey to Forever: http://journeytoforever.org/biofuel.html Please do NOT send "unsubscribe" messages to the list address. To unsubscribe, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
