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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>The cost of planting the miscanthus from rhizomes
or plants will be a major factor along with the zero value miscanthus has for
livestock. Our research in Missouri shows that it take three years for
miscanthus to reach full yield potential of 12 tons/acre. The first two
years are less than switchgrass.</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Tim</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial">----- Original Message ----- </DIV>
<DIV
style="BACKGROUND: #e4e4e4; FONT: 10pt arial; font-color: black"><B>From:</B>
<A title=Scott.Woodbury@mobot.org href="mailto:Scott.Woodbury@mobot.org">Scott
Woodbury</A> </DIV>
<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>To:</B> <A title=hamilton@train.missouri.org
href="mailto:hamilton@train.missouri.org">Hamilton Native Outpost</A> ; <A
title=foberle@nemr.net href="mailto:foberle@nemr.net">Frank Oberle</A> ; <A
title=RRoeslein@ROESLEIN.com href="mailto:RRoeslein@ROESLEIN.com">Rudi
Roeslein</A> ; <A title=davitleahy@earthlink.net
href="mailto:davitleahy@earthlink.net">Carol Davit</A> ; <A
title=carpenter@mysticplains.org
href="mailto:carpenter@mysticplains.org">Kevin Carpenter</A> ; <A
title=djmaint@aol.com href="mailto:djmaint@aol.com">Jon Wingo</A> </DIV>
<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Cc:</B> <A title=duffieldben@yahoo.com
href="mailto:duffieldben@yahoo.com">Ben Duffield</A> ; <A
title=abuechler@confedmo.org href="mailto:abuechler@confedmo.org">Amy
Buechler</A> ; <A title=mowldflrs@socket.net
href="mailto:mowldflrs@socket.net">Mervin Wallace</A> ; <A
title=john.hoskins@mdc.mo.gov href="mailto:john.hoskins@mdc.mo.gov">John
Hoskins</A> ; <A title=jburknwtf@ktis.net
href="mailto:jburknwtf@ktis.net">John Burk</A> ; <A
title=John.Knudsen@mdc.mo.gov href="mailto:John.Knudsen@mdc.mo.gov">John
Knudsen</A> ; <A title=Stevem4444@aol.com
href="mailto:Stevem4444@aol.com">Steve Mowry</A> ; <A
title=David.Erickson@mdc.mo.gov href="mailto:David.Erickson@mdc.mo.gov">David
Erickson</A> ; <A title=hddonnell@hotmail.com
href="mailto:hddonnell@hotmail.com">Denny Donnell</A> ; <A
title=wayne2946@yahoo.com href="mailto:wayne2946@yahoo.com">Wayne Morton</A> ;
<A title=seekg@grm.net href="mailto:seekg@grm.net">George Seek</A> ; <A
title=Kelly_SrigleyWerner@fws.gov
href="mailto:Kelly_SrigleyWerner@fws.gov">Kelly Srigley Werner</A> ; <A
title=Ltossing@aol.com href="mailto:Ltossing@aol.com">Linda Tossing</A> ; <A
title=alan.leary@modot.mo.gov href="mailto:alan.leary@modot.mo.gov">Alan
Leary</A> ; <A title=ted@tswllc.com href="mailto:ted@tswllc.com">Ted
Cooper</A> ; <A title=hazelwoods@mchsi.com
href="mailto:hazelwoods@mchsi.com">Susan Hazelwood</A> ; <A
title=Mike.Currier@dnr.mo.gov href="mailto:Mike.Currier@dnr.mo.gov">Mike
Currier</A> ; <A title=ashlandbirdman@yahoo.com
href="mailto:ashlandbirdman@yahoo.com">Steve Heyling</A> ; <A
title=andrew.forbes@mdc.mo.gov href="mailto:andrew.forbes@mdc.mo.gov">Andrew
Forbes</A> ; <A title=James.Trager@mobot.org
href="mailto:James.Trager@mobot.org">James Trager</A> ; <A
title=curlew@3riversdbs.net href="mailto:curlew@3riversdbs.net">Tim
Barksdale</A> ; <A title=ReinbottT@missouri.edu
href="mailto:ReinbottT@missouri.edu">Reinbott, Timothy M.</A> ; <A
title=phw222@GOOGLEMAIL.COM href="mailto:phw222@GOOGLEMAIL.COM">phil wire</A>
; <A title=DeeCee.Darrow@mdc.mo.gov
href="mailto:DeeCee.Darrow@mdc.mo.gov">DeeCee Darrow</A> ; <A
title=John.Murphy@mdc.mo.gov href="mailto:John.Murphy@mdc.mo.gov">John
Murphy</A> ; <A title=dmurphy@confedmo.org
href="mailto:dmurphy@confedmo.org">Dave Murphy</A> ; <A
title=Bill.Bergh@mdc.mo.gov href="mailto:Bill.Bergh@mdc.mo.gov">Bill Bergh</A>
; <A title=Bill.McGuire@mdc.mo.gov href="mailto:Bill.McGuire@mdc.mo.gov">Bill
McGuire</A> ; <A title=dwaine.gelnar@mo.usda.gov
href="mailto:dwaine.gelnar@mo.usda.gov">Dwaine Gelnar</A> ; <A
title=Allen.Powell@mo.usda.gov href="mailto:Allen.Powell@mo.usda.gov">Allen
Powell</A> ; <A title=Jr.Flores@mo.usda.gov
href="mailto:Jr.Flores@mo.usda.gov">JR Flores</A> ; <A
title=Eddie.Hamill@mo.usda.gov href="mailto:Eddie.Hamill@mo.usda.gov">Eddie
Hamill</A> ; <A title=Gene.Gardner@mdc.mo.gov
href="mailto:Gene.Gardner@mdc.mo.gov">Gene Gardner</A> ; <A
title=Tim.Banek@mdc.mo.gov href="mailto:Tim.Banek@mdc.mo.gov">Tim Banek</A> ;
<A title=darlene.johnson@mo.usda.gov
href="mailto:darlene.johnson@mo.usda.gov">Darlene Johnson</A> ; <A
title=Karen.Brinkman@mo.usda.gov
href="mailto:Karen.Brinkman@mo.usda.gov">Karen Brinkman</A> ; <A
title=Brent.Jamison@mdc.mo.gov href="mailto:Brent.Jamison@mdc.mo.gov">Brent
Jamison</A> ; <A title=Keith.Jackson@mdc.mo.gov
href="mailto:Keith.Jackson@mdc.mo.gov">Keith Jackson</A> ; <A
title=Aaron.Jeffries@mdc.mo.gov href="mailto:Aaron.Jeffries@mdc.mo.gov">Aaron
Jeffries</A> ; <A title=jean.herman@mo.usda.gov
href="mailto:jean.herman@mo.usda.gov">Jean Herman</A> ; <A
title=steve.bruckerhoff@mo.usda.gov
href="mailto:steve.bruckerhoff@mo.usda.gov">Steve Bruckerhoff</A> ; <A
title=steveaflick@earthlink.net href="mailto:steveaflick@earthlink.net">Steve
Flick</A> ; <A title=jerry.kaiser@mo.usda.gov
href="mailto:jerry.kaiser@mo.usda.gov">Jerry Kaiser</A> ; <A
title=ken.struemph@dnr.mo.gov href="mailto:ken.struemph@dnr.mo.gov">Ken
Struemph</A> ; <A title=staceyg@missouri.edu
href="mailto:staceyg@missouri.edu">Stacey, Gary</A> </DIV>
<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Sent:</B> Tuesday, December 15, 2009 8:32
AM</DIV>
<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Subject:</B> RE: biomass</DIV>
<DIV><BR></DIV>
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<P class=MsoNormal><FONT face=Arial color=navy size=2><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: navy; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">This sounds great as
long as long as landowners opt for a diverse planting in CRP. Right now the
research on biomass is showing that sterile hybrid miscanthus yields 2-3 times
as much biomass as native switchgrass, and therefore could bring in more
money. That’s comparing a pure stand of switchgrass to a pure stand of
miscanthus. Now days’ CRP isn’t a pure stand of switchgrass. My fear is that
landowners will drop CRP when they see that they can make more money growing
miscanthus? Of course this can’t happen until Miscanthus production becomes
mechanized. Please tell me otherwise. I don’t like the idea of miscanthus
replacing CRP.<o:p></o:p></SPAN></FONT></P>
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style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: navy; FONT-FAMILY: Arial"><o:p> </o:p></SPAN></FONT></P>
<P class=MsoNormal><FONT face=Arial color=navy size=2><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: navy; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">Scott<o:p></o:p></SPAN></FONT></P>
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style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: navy; FONT-FAMILY: Arial"><o:p> </o:p></SPAN></FONT></P>
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<P class=MsoNormal><B><FONT face=Tahoma size=2><SPAN
style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold; FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Tahoma">From:</SPAN></FONT></B><FONT
face=Tahoma size=2><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Tahoma">
Hamilton Native Outpost [mailto:hamilton@train.missouri.org] <BR><B><SPAN
style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold">Sent:</SPAN></B> Monday, December 14, 2009 1:56
PM<BR><B><SPAN style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold">To:</SPAN></B> 'Frank Oberle'; 'Rudi
Roeslein'; 'Carol Davit'; 'Kevin Carpenter'; 'Jon Wingo'<BR><B><SPAN
style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold">Cc:</SPAN></B> 'Ben Duffield'; 'Amy Buechler';
'Mervin Wallace'; 'John Hoskins'; 'John Burk'; 'John Knudsen'; 'Steve Mowry';
'David Erickson'; 'Denny Donnell'; 'Wayne Morton'; 'George Seek'; 'Kelly
Srigley Werner'; 'Linda Tossing'; 'Alan Leary'; 'Ted Cooper'; 'Susan
Hazelwood'; 'Mike Currier'; 'Steve Heyling'; 'Andrew Forbes'; James Trager;
Scott Woodbury; 'Tim Barksdale'; 'Tim Reinbott'; 'phil wire'; 'DeeCee Darrow';
'John Murphy'; 'Dave Murphy'; 'Bill Bergh'; 'Bill McGuire'; 'Dwaine Gelnar';
'Allen Powell'; 'JR Flores'; 'Eddie Hamill'; 'Gene Gardner'; 'Tim Banek';
'Darlene Johnson'; 'Karen Brinkman'; 'Brent Jamison'; 'Keith Jackson'; 'Aaron
Jeffries'; 'Jean Herman'; 'Steve Bruckerhoff'; 'Steve Flick'; 'Jerry Kaiser';
'Ken Struemph'; <A
href="mailto:staceyg@missouri.edu">staceyg@missouri.edu</A><BR><B><SPAN
style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold">Subject:</SPAN></B> RE:
biomass</SPAN></FONT><o:p></o:p></P></DIV>
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style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt"><o:p> </o:p></SPAN></FONT></P>
<P class=MsoNormal><FONT face=Arial color=navy size=2><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: navy; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">CRP as we have known
it in the past may have been a fescue field or a rank stand of native grasses
with little diversity. Conservation is ready to step up to the next
level and create rare and declining habitat. To marry biofuels with
wildlife conservation has the added benefit of bringing disturbance into the
picture. Disturbance is important to grasslands; fire, herbivores, and
climatic extremes once acted as disturbance factors. The use of the
mowing on the biofuel ¼ or 1/3 would be a forn of disturbance as would the
burning on another ¼ or 1/3. Some of the grassland wildlife is even
dependent on this disturbance. I think this has lots of
potential.<o:p></o:p></SPAN></FONT></P>
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style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: navy; FONT-FAMILY: Arial"><o:p> </o:p></SPAN></FONT></P>
<P class=MsoNormal><FONT face=Arial color=navy size=2><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: navy; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">Amy
Hamilton<o:p></o:p></SPAN></FONT></P>
<P class=MsoNormal><st1:City w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on"><FONT face=Arial
color=navy size=2><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: navy; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">Hamilton</SPAN></FONT></st1:place></st1:City><FONT
face=Arial color=navy size=2><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: navy; FONT-FAMILY: Arial"> Native Outpost
<o:p></o:p></SPAN></FONT></P>
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style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: navy; FONT-FAMILY: Arial"><o:p> </o:p></SPAN></FONT></P>
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<P class=MsoNormal><B><FONT face=Tahoma size=2><SPAN
style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold; FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Tahoma">From:</SPAN></FONT></B><FONT
face=Tahoma size=2><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Tahoma"> Frank
Oberle [mailto:foberle@nemr.net] <BR><B><SPAN
style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold">Sent:</SPAN></B> Thursday, December 10, 2009 2:00
PM<BR><B><SPAN style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold">To:</SPAN></B> Rudi Roeslein; Carol
Davit; Kevin Carpenter; Jon Wingo<BR><B><SPAN
style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold">Cc:</SPAN></B> Ben Duffield; Amy Hamilton; Amy
Buechler; Mervin Wallace; <st1:PersonName w:st="on">John
Hoskins</st1:PersonName>; John Burk; John Knudsen; Steve Mowry; Amy Buechler;
<st1:PersonName w:st="on">David Erickson</st1:PersonName>; Denny Donnell;
Wayne Morton; George Seek; John Burk; Kelly Srigley Werner; Linda Tossing;
Steve Mowry; Alan Leary; Ted Cooper; Susan Hazelwood; Mike Currier; Steve
Heyling; Andrew Forbes; James Trager; Scott Woodbury; Tim Barksdale;
<st1:PersonName w:st="on">Tim Reinbott</st1:PersonName>; phil wire; DeeCee
Darrow; John Murphy; Dave Murphy; Bill Bergh; Bill McGuire; Dwaine Gelnar;
Allen Powell; JR Flores; Eddie Hamill; Dwaine Gelnar; Gene Gardner; Tim Banek;
Darlene Johnson; Karen Brinkman; Brent Jamison; Keith Jackson; Aaron Jeffries;
Jean Herman; Steve Bruckerhoff; Steve Flick; Jerry Kaiser; Ken Struemph;
Andrew Forbes; <A
href="mailto:staceyg@missouri.edu">staceyg@missouri.edu</A><BR><B><SPAN
style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold">Subject:</SPAN></B> Fw:
biomass</SPAN></FONT><o:p></o:p></P></DIV>
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size=6><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 24pt">the popularity of the USDA's Biomass Crop
Assistance Program has soared, with the number of qualifying facilities now
exceeding 280</SPAN></FONT></A></SPAN></FONT><FONT face=Verdana color=black
size=6><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 24pt; COLOR: black; FONT-FAMILY: Verdana">. The
Biomass Crop Assistance Program assists agricultural and forest land owners
and operators with matching payments for the amount paid for the collection,
harvest, storage and transportation of eligible material by a qualified
Biomass Conversion Facility.</SPAN></FONT><FONT face=Verdana color=black
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style="FONT-SIZE: 18pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">Conservationist,</SPAN></FONT><o:p></o:p></P></DIV>
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<P class=MsoNormal><FONT face=Arial size=5><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 18pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial"> I
believe the time has come here in <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:State
w:st="on">Missouri</st1:State></st1:place> to begin a very strategic
plan</SPAN></FONT><o:p></o:p></P></DIV>
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<P class=MsoNormal><FONT face=Arial size=5><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 18pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">on how we can become not only
serious players in the biomass industry, but how
can</SPAN></FONT><o:p></o:p></P></DIV>
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<P class=MsoNormal><FONT face=Arial size=5><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 18pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">we improve wildlife habitat at the
same time. I will emphatically state there
is</SPAN></FONT><o:p></o:p></P></DIV>
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<P class=MsoNormal><FONT face=Arial size=5><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 18pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">known scientific evidence that
will validate this claim--especially all CRP lands
that</SPAN></FONT><o:p></o:p></P></DIV>
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<P class=MsoNormal><FONT face=Arial size=5><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 18pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">currently--and maybe
futuristically--are enrolled in a plant material--like fescue
and </SPAN></FONT><o:p></o:p></P></DIV>
<DIV>
<P class=MsoNormal><FONT face=Arial size=5><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 18pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">brome--that has very little
environmental benefits. </SPAN></FONT><o:p></o:p></P></DIV>
<DIV>
<P class=MsoNormal><FONT face=Arial size=5><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 18pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial"> In order
to move an idea forward there has to be action. And there is no
action</SPAN></FONT><o:p></o:p></P></DIV>
<DIV>
<P class=MsoNormal><FONT face=Arial size=5><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 18pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">until there is movement. My
passion and cause for our state is to
add wildlife,</SPAN></FONT><o:p></o:p></P></DIV>
<DIV>
<P class=MsoNormal><FONT face=Arial size=5><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 18pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">environmental and green energy
benefits for <st1:place w:st="on">Northern Missouri</st1:place>. How do we
add</SPAN></FONT><o:p></o:p></P></DIV>
<DIV>
<P class=MsoNormal><FONT face=Arial size=5><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 18pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">value to an economically depressed
area? Firstly, like a Doctor's oath of promise
</SPAN></FONT><o:p></o:p></P></DIV>
<DIV>
<P class=MsoNormal><FONT face=Arial size=5><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 18pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">for receiving his degree: "Never
to do Harm." We need to emulate nature's
blueprint</SPAN></FONT><o:p></o:p></P></DIV>
<DIV>
<P class=MsoNormal><FONT face=Arial size=5><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 18pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">and follow a path of
least resistance. It is always more difficult to bend
mother</SPAN></FONT><o:p></o:p></P></DIV>
<DIV>
<P class=MsoNormal><FONT face=Arial size=5><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 18pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">nature to our wants, than it is to
assimilate to an ideology</SPAN></FONT> <FONT face=Arial size=5><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 18pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">that heeds to
bending</SPAN></FONT><o:p></o:p></P></DIV>
<DIV>
<P class=MsoNormal><FONT face=Arial size=5><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 18pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">with her.</SPAN></FONT><o:p></o:p></P></DIV>
<DIV>
<P class=MsoNormal><FONT face=Arial size=5><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 18pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial"> One
known truth evident here in <st1:place w:st="on">N. Missouri</st1:place> is
that we can grow native grass and</SPAN></FONT><o:p></o:p></P></DIV>
<DIV>
<P class=MsoNormal><FONT face=Arial size=5><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 18pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">broadleaf legumes. Cellulosic's
greatest asset is that indigenous plant material suited to the soil and
climate adds to the success of the project. We have the potential
of</SPAN></FONT><o:p></o:p></P></DIV>
<DIV>
<P class=MsoNormal><FONT face=Arial size=5><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 18pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">rebuilding CRP with an
ecologically sound plant material that will boost biodiversity
</SPAN></FONT><o:p></o:p></P></DIV>
<DIV>
<P class=MsoNormal><FONT face=Arial size=5><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 18pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">and reviving rural
economies. </SPAN></FONT><o:p></o:p></P></DIV>
<DIV>
<P class=MsoNormal><FONT face=Arial size=5><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 18pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial"> Please do
not take my word for any of this, use the science at hand.
There</SPAN></FONT><o:p></o:p></P></DIV>
<DIV>
<P class=MsoNormal><FONT face=Arial size=5><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 18pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">are entrepreneurs willing and
hoping for such an opportunity. Does
anyone </SPAN></FONT><o:p></o:p></P></DIV>
<DIV>
<P class=MsoNormal><FONT face=Arial size=5><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 18pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">out there have any suggestions on
where or how to begin this endeavor? We
have </SPAN></FONT><o:p></o:p></P></DIV>
<DIV>
<P class=MsoNormal><FONT face=Arial size=5><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 18pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">nearly 1.5 million acres of CRP
here in <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:State
w:st="on">Missouri</st1:State></st1:place>. One plan could be that
once</SPAN></FONT><o:p></o:p></P></DIV>
<DIV>
<P class=MsoNormal><FONT face=Arial size=5><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 18pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">the re-established CRP acres of
any single tract of ground was deemed ready</SPAN></FONT><o:p></o:p></P></DIV>
<DIV>
<P class=MsoNormal><FONT face=Arial size=5><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 18pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">to be engaged into a
regime of biomass/wildlife management rotation, one forth
to one</SPAN></FONT><o:p></o:p></P></DIV>
<DIV>
<P class=MsoNormal><FONT face=Arial size=5><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 18pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">third of the tract would be
allowed to be harvested in the months of
October</SPAN></FONT><o:p></o:p></P></DIV>
<DIV>
<P class=MsoNormal><FONT face=Arial size=5><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 18pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">through January. There would
be no rental penalty for the landowner to pay if the plant material was
used in some biomass project. The next designated portion to
be</SPAN></FONT><o:p></o:p></P></DIV>
<DIV>
<P class=MsoNormal><FONT face=Arial size=5><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 18pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">harvested--rather it be one third
to one forth--would be eligible for a late spring
burn </SPAN></FONT><o:p></o:p></P></DIV>
<DIV>
<P class=MsoNormal><FONT face=Arial size=5><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 18pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">to encourage both forb growth and
grass development. When there is plenty of</SPAN></FONT><o:p></o:p></P></DIV>
<DIV>
<P class=MsoNormal><FONT face=Arial size=5><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 18pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">thatch build-up, there are less
forbs that will have vigorous growth. We
have</SPAN></FONT><o:p></o:p></P></DIV>
<DIV>
<P class=MsoNormal><FONT face=Arial size=5><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 18pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">experienced this fact in our
production fields. It works like this. Plants store
starches</SPAN></FONT><o:p></o:p></P></DIV>
<DIV>
<P class=MsoNormal><FONT face=Arial size=5><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 18pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">and sugars in their roots systems.
In early spring, if there is a canopy of thatch
which</SPAN></FONT><o:p></o:p></P></DIV>
<DIV>
<P class=MsoNormal><FONT face=Arial size=5><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 18pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">creates enormous shade, when the
emerging plant sends it first two basal
leaves </SPAN></FONT><o:p></o:p></P></DIV>
<DIV>
<P class=MsoNormal><FONT face=Arial size=5><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 18pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">for light scouting, perennial and
long lived native plants will not take the risk
of</SPAN></FONT><o:p></o:p></P></DIV>
<DIV>
<P class=MsoNormal><FONT face=Arial size=5><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 18pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">expending large amounts of
root reserves to overtake the canopy--just too
risky. </SPAN></FONT><o:p></o:p></P></DIV>
<DIV>
<P class=MsoNormal><FONT face=Arial size=5><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 18pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial"> There are many
possibilities that could be worked out. Currently, though, I
believe</SPAN></FONT><o:p></o:p></P></DIV>
<DIV>
<P class=MsoNormal><FONT face=Arial size=5><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 18pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">we could be passing on a great
opportunity to rebuild our landscape to a vegetation that is suited to attract
and sustain our rare and declining wildlife, but too, the
biomass entrepreneurs. It also would be good for pollinators, producers
and weaning our</SPAN></FONT><o:p></o:p></P></DIV>
<DIV>
<P class=MsoNormal><FONT face=Arial size=5><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 18pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">nation's dependency on imported
fossil fuels. I'm not saying the above is the perfect set of blueprints for a
run away success story, however, I can say with wisdom and discernment
that CRP could use a make-over that gives the customer--our hard
working American taxpayers--real dividends for
their investment.</SPAN></FONT><o:p></o:p></P></DIV>
<DIV>
<P class=MsoNormal><FONT face=Arial size=5><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 18pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial"> In the
beginning of the Conservation Reserve Program, the goals of preventing soil
erosion and cleaning up our streams was an industrious and very
successful </SPAN></FONT><o:p></o:p></P></DIV>
<DIV>
<P class=MsoNormal><FONT face=Arial size=5><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 18pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">conservation accomplishment. We
have progressed immensely in the field of understanding and implementing
native plant communities and the adverse affects of toxic and invasive fescue.
The research going on at NRCS's <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:PlaceName
w:st="on">Plant</st1:PlaceName> <st1:PlaceName
w:st="on">Material</st1:PlaceName> <st1:PlaceType
w:st="on">Center</st1:PlaceType></st1:place>
and </SPAN></FONT><o:p></o:p></P></DIV>
<DIV>
<P class=MsoNormal><FONT face=Arial size=5><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 18pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">MU's Bradford Farm will yield much
to the enhancement of a myriad of wildlife and biomass concerns. Thanks to all
those partners supporting these exigencies.
fo</SPAN></FONT><o:p></o:p></P></DIV>
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