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<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";
color:#1F497D'>Thank you all for your professional and very well thought out and
varied input on this matter. I am the CEO of a company <a
href="http://www.roeslein.com">www.roeslein.com</a> that has actually been
involved in the ethanol industry for a number of years and in fact just completed
two very large corn based projects for EBenX/Abengoa, in Illinois and in Indiana.
We have also worked with BlueFire on their Lancaster California proposed
project for several years. We have also been instrumental in taking modular
processes to over 40 different countries in the past 20 years using a modular
approach that uses American Technology, but more importantly our labor to
produce and manufacture over 60 % of the labor that would normally be stick
built in these foreign countries. All of these processes were proven and
commercially viable, and they had a track record of success in the US before
we took them overseas.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";
color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";
color:#1F497D'>The facts regarding the bio fuel industry and which technology
will actually prove to be commercially viable are still evolving and unproven
commercially. There are several technologies that have been proven to work in
both laboratory scales and even with demonstration scales. It is however a
huge leap commercially and technologically to scale these units up to a
commercially viable production facility. It will take companies with a proven
track record of success in related industries and that have the financial
staying power to weather the financial droughts to be successful in this arena.
I have spent the last three years studying this industry in order to make
sound and well informed decisions on which process company we should engage our
modular services with the expectation of provide long term modular engineering and
manufacturing services. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";
color:#1F497D'> I have also visited the University of Minnesota and met with
Dr. David Tilman and Dr. Clarence Lehman to discuss their views on this subject
and to visit their research farm where they are growing various grasses and
conducting a variety of tests. I have also met with Dr. Peter Raven, the
Director of the Missouri Botanical garden regarding the biodiversity of plants
and animals and how various countries like China are dealing with their
industrialization and the environment. I have read countless magazines,
articles, publications and must profess I still do not pretend to be “smarter
than a fifth grader”. These efforts were all towards making a sound
decision as to the right decision on feedstock materials.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";
color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";
color:#1F497D'> I have traveled extensively to China since 1982, and have
witnessed firsthand the growth of industry, infrastructure, and the shift from
fairly low energy means of transportation such as bicycles, motor scooters,
trains, buses, and just plain foot power to a highly mechanized motorcade of
cars and other combustion engines. Because Dr. Raven has worked with many
different countries and especially China we discussed the biodiversity of
plants along the more industrialized eastern sections of the country and shared
the same view. It is an ecological travesty and a disaster. The rivers are extremely
polluted, the natural resources are exploited to the breaking point and in a
lot of cities the air quality is deplorable. What does that have to do with
this subject? I believe it has to do with the fact that China is a window into
the future of any developing nation dealing with a very high demand on all of
its resources because of population explosions. When I immigrated to the US in
1956 there were 150 million people. Today there are over 300 million people.
The burgeoning demands on all of our resources will continue to grow and it scares
the hell out of me to think that China is an example of what could happen
here. I am sure there are a few right now saying that can’t happen, but
in just the last 20 years of my travelling back and forth from St. Louis to my
central Missouri farm in Osage County I have seen a tremendous amount of growth
and development that has continued to gobble up prime farm real estate and
wildlife habitat. I have travelled all over the US and seen the same
explosion.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";
color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";
color:#1F497D'>I truly believe that Missouri needs a comprehensive energy, land,
water, and resource utilization plan that inventories what we have today and
how we best intend to utilize those resources in the future, as well as
position Missouri to attract the leading process providers in this industry.
Dr. Clarence Lehman and some of his colleagues at the University of Minnesota prepared
a very comprehensive feasibility study for the White Horse Indian reservation,
that “presents a detailed analysis of the economic and technical feasibility
of utilizing existing biomass resources on the White Horse Reservation to
develop a renewable energy biofuels demonstration facility. It also considers
the possibility of developing, harvesting and marketing native prairie plants
and seeds for bioenergy production.” I am copying Dr Lehman on this
email since he was kind enough to provide me with a copy of this extremely
professional and well done study. I am sharing the executive summary with this
group since I believe it is imperative that the policy makers and the decision makers
of this state become well informed regarding this important subject. There
will be many companies and people purported to have the solutions and answers
for this hot and politically charges subject. I believe the State of Missouri should
do a similar study before deciding how and where to spend the money that is
going to be expended for this exciting new industry. We have an opportunity to
get it right and combine our industrial efforts and economic stimulus with environmental
and conservation causes that are scientifically sound and environmentally sustainable.
I believe the 20 years that Dr. Tilman and other renowned scientists have
studied the benefits of a diverse and varied planting has convinced me the sustainable
way of taking this industry is thru the use of our prairie planting and the
many benefits derived from this once abundant and beneficial eco system. I am
working with the process providers to convince them to develop their processes
to be able to fully utilize these resources. It is up to the assigned
representatives of Missouri to come up with a plan to attract investment. The
planting of grasslands is an essential part of the needs of this industry, and
needs to be a very high priority or we will be left out of the mainstream
movement. If you don’t have the supply of biomass material the process
providers will not come. I believe such a study would certainly be a good first
step in the right direction. If Dr. Lehman approves the idea I will send
interested parties a full copy of this report, or would be happy to meet with
them to review the entire report.” This study evaluated the conversion
platforms ranging from the simple to the complex with the common goal of
converting renewable biomass to some useful form of energy that is called
biofuel.”<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";
color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";
color:#1F497D'>The question to be answered by the study are:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";
color:#1F497D'>1.How do the various conversion platforms differ?<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";
color:#1F497D'>2.How does plant scale affect economic performance?<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";
color:#1F497D'>3.What are capital costs and return on investment for the platforms?<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";
color:#1F497D'>4.What is the financial impact of biomass cost and rack prices
of ethanol and gasoline?<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";
color:#1F497D'>5. How much biomass is required for different platforms?<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";
color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";
color:#1F497D'> I have purchased 1100 acres of land in Putnam county and will
be converting the marginal agricultural land to native prairie plantings and am
currently working with the MDC, PLM John Murphy to provide an example of what
can be done with WSG plantings and have at least 300 to 500 acres of prairie
plantings available for our process providers by the time they are ready to
take their process commercial. This is obviously a drop in the bucket since it
will take over four hundred thousands acres to support a single 50 mm gallon economically
viable plant, and as has been pointed out within a economical viable range of
that plant. I am taking the prairie planting route since it provides so many
environmental benefits that are lacking in monolithic plantings of most other
alternatives. Since this farm is located near an area that once supported
prairie chickens I am hoping an added befit will be to provide the wildlife
friendly grasses and forbs necessary to the survival of this diminishing
species.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";
color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";
color:#1F497D'>In addition, Dr. Tilman’s studies have repeatedly
demonstrated these benefits to be to sequester CO2, filter the water, as well
as replenish the ground water table, prevent soil erosion, provide innumerable
wildlife habitat benefits, and provide the insects and forage that most cool
season grasses, especially fescue is lacking. Even if Biofuel develops in a
different direction or not at all these biodiverse plantings in native prairie are
a sound investment in our environment and our wildlife conservation program.
The very biodiversity that makes them a challenge will bring out the best in
our technological superiority, and our ingenuity. We did to go to the moon without
overcoming challenges and developing new products and technology. No, I believe
if we had not gone to the moon many of the new scientific break thru in computer
technology, propellants and untold other new inventions that would not be with
us today.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";
color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";
color:#1F497D'>I have traveled throughout the US and Canada hunting the bountiful
wildlife we are so privileged to have and repeatedly sung the praises of our
state as leaders in conservation and wildlife practices. We are at a threshold
of opportunity and it is thru leadership by example and making informed decisions
based on science and biology that we will take our rightful role in this very
important movement. Please do not be misled by political or special interest
groups that do not take our wildlife and our most precious resources into
consideration, but seem to have simplistic and self serving answers. I have
seen the end result of that process in China and can only work frantically on
my properties to show an example of what can be a viable and sustainable alternative.
I hope all of you will become informed on the entire subject and not just some
small narrow band of interest. Take the challenge, help be part of the
solution and not the problem. Please take time to read the attachment and if
Dr . Lehman approves the idea I will send the interested parties the entire
study.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";
color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'>From:</span></b><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'> Bill McGuire
[mailto:Bill.McGuire@mdc.mo.gov] <br>
<b>Sent:</b> Tuesday, December 15, 2009 10:05 AM<br>
<b>To:</b> 'steveaflick@earthlink.net'; 'Scott Woodbury'; 'Hamilton Native
Outpost'; 'Frank Oberle'; Rudi Roeslein; 'Carol Davit'; 'Kevin Carpenter'; 'Jon
Wingo'<br>
<b>Cc:</b> 'Ben Duffield'; 'Amy Buechler'; 'Mervin Wallace'; John Hoskins;
'John Burk'; John Knudsen; 'Steve Mowry'; Dave 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'; 'Tim Barksdale'; 'Tim Reinbott'; 'phil wire';
DeeCee Darrow; John Murphy; 'Dave Murphy'; Bill Bergh; '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'; 'Jerry Kaiser'; 'Ken Struemph';
staceyg@missouri.edu<br>
<b>Subject:</b> RE: biomass<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";
color:#1F497D'>CRP is a national program and the reasons it exists are
complex. There is not a lot of support at the national level (more
broadly than conveyed below) to moving CRP away from the soil, water, wildlife
and related purposes that have been legislated. There is more support for
the idea of CRP as a reservoir of biomass feedstocks if done as compatible use
(i.e. harvest OK as long as the purposes of the program are preserved and in
accordance with existing authorities which reflect negotiated position among
many diverse groups) – there is less support as thinking moves CRP away
from that paradigm. Some of the USDA representatives receiving this
message can correct me if wrong but biomass harvest from CRP has been possible
since the 2002 Farm Bill. It is also important to know that CRP has been
an important emergency reservoir of forage that has benefited livestock
producers in times of weather-related disaster (many, many times in just about
every state with significant CRP) and that is only possible by way of CRP being
what it is. CRP has always been viewed as a reservoir of land that could
quickly go back in crop production in the event of national emergency such as
war (the Secretary of Agriculture has authority to make that call). It
won’t be possible for CRP to be all of the above all the time and changing
the magic of the formula that created and maintains CRP could erode flexibility
for the land to be what the country needs when it is needed.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";
color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";
color:#1F497D'>There is much uncertainty about the CRP and biofuel feedstock
production but the following factors are very much at play:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";
color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
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color:#1F497D'>Producing biofuel feedstocks on CRP or other land will
accomplish little unless there is a processing or other facility to use it
within a reasonable distance (50-75 miles is the distance usually discussed
because to transport farther makes biofuel production uneconomical).<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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</span></span></span><![endif]><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";
color:#1F497D'>Industry (and often academia) continues to be focused on
maximizing production from single-purpose monoculture production and that will
drive things in the short term which could turn into the long term. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
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</span></span></span><![endif]><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";
color:#1F497D'>Funding and economics will be the overriding factors for some
time to come (as in money from programs, tax or other incentives and
bottom-line profitability).<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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</span></span></span><![endif]><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";
color:#1F497D'>Change to CRP that benefits wildlife in one part of the U.S. can
result in harm to wildlife if applied in another place.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";
color:#1F497D'> <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";
color:#1F497D'>A final word on CRP is simply to be aware that the playing field
is very complicated as is the biofuels playing field. Put them together
and you have a 3-D chess game in terms of complexity and that is loaded with
potential for unintended consequence. My only advice is to seek to
understand all the issues before coming to very many conclusions.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";
color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";
color:#1F497D'>Bill<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><a name="_MailEndCompose"></a><span style='font-size:11.0pt;
font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'>From:</span></b><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'> Steve Flick
[mailto:steveaflick@earthlink.net] <br>
<b>Sent:</b> Tuesday, December 15, 2009 8:46 AM<br>
<b>To:</b> 'Scott Woodbury'; 'Hamilton Native Outpost'; 'Frank Oberle'; 'Rudi
Roeslein'; 'Carol Davit'; 'Kevin Carpenter'; 'Jon Wingo'<br>
<b>Cc:</b> 'Ben Duffield'; 'Amy Buechler'; 'Mervin Wallace'; John Hoskins;
'John Burk'; John Knudsen; 'Steve Mowry'; Dave 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'; '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'; 'Jerry Kaiser'; 'Ken Struemph';
staceyg@missouri.edu<br>
<b>Subject:</b> RE: biomass<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";
color:navy'>I have been growing miscanthus for years as a feedstock for the bio
refinery- although there is a FSA program about to be launched for spring 2010
for dedicated energy crop production- you still need a organization to purchase
that crop- and refine it</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";
color:navy'> </span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";
color:navy'>As it relates to CRP- I believe you will have to get through policy
of NWF/EDL/Nature Conservancy- to make that happen- they are big policy makers
in D.C.- pretty tough assignment </span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";
color:navy'> </span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class=MsoAutoSig><span style='color:navy'>Regards</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoAutoSig><span style='color:navy'> </span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoAutoSig><span style='color:navy'>Steve A Flick
Principal Environmental Ecologist</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoAutoSig><span style='color:navy'>Flick Seed Company</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoAutoSig><span style='color:navy'>1764 N.W. 50 rd P.O. Box 128</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class=MsoAutoSig><span style='color:navy'><a href="http://www.seedguys.com/">www.seedguys.com</a>
</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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Message-----<br>
<b>From:</b> Scott Woodbury [mailto:Scott.Woodbury@mobot.org] <br>
<b>Sent:</b> Tuesday, December 15, 2009 8:32 AM<br>
<b>To:</b> Hamilton Native Outpost; Frank Oberle; Rudi Roeslein; Carol Davit;
Kevin Carpenter; Jon Wingo<br>
<b>Cc:</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; 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; staceyg@missouri.edu<br>
<b>Subject:</b> RE: biomass</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal> <o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";
color:navy'>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.</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";
color:navy'> </span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";
color:navy'>Scott</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";
color:navy'> </span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'>From:</span></b><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'> Hamilton Native
Outpost [mailto:hamilton@train.missouri.org] <br>
<b>Sent:</b> Monday, December 14, 2009 1:56 PM<br>
<b>To:</b> 'Frank Oberle'; 'Rudi Roeslein'; 'Carol Davit'; 'Kevin Carpenter';
'Jon Wingo'<br>
<b>Cc:</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'; staceyg@missouri.edu<br>
<b>Subject:</b> RE: biomass</span><o:p></o:p></p>
</div>
<p class=MsoNormal> <o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";
color:navy'>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.</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";
color:navy'> </span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";
color:navy'>Amy Hamilton</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";
color:navy'>Hamilton Native Outpost </span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";
color:navy'> </span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'>From:</span></b><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'> Frank Oberle
[mailto:foberle@nemr.net] <br>
<b>Sent:</b> Thursday, December 10, 2009 2:00 PM<br>
<b>To:</b> Rudi Roeslein; Carol Davit; Kevin Carpenter; Jon Wingo<br>
<b>Cc:</b> Ben Duffield; Amy Hamilton; Amy Buechler; Mervin Wallace; John
Hoskins; John Burk; John Knudsen; Steve Mowry; Amy Buechler; David Erickson;
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; Tim Reinbott; 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; staceyg@missouri.edu<br>
<b>Subject:</b> Fw: biomass</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'> </span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal style='background:whitesmoke'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'><br>
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<p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:36.0pt;font-family:"Trebuchet MS","sans-serif";
color:#006600;background:yellow'>Policy and Policymakers</span></b><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:18.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";
color:black'><br>
</span><b><span style='font-size:24.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";
color:black'>In Washington,</span></b><span style='font-size:24.0pt;font-family:
"Verdana","sans-serif";color:black'> </span><span style='font-size:18.0pt;
font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:black'><a
href="http://rs6.net/tn.jsp?et=1102878250501&s=2761&e=001GCQRvDWWio9VqdgKxH5ka5XkUUSUmFWBbXSArjKjhTtaDOpWohH_PRRKv98bxvAubhTlGoXmbGveN7sRWa6GEz4ju1VmK5fz7-OqpEpiZsRNmEHUh-ZPKMJQ_9Lmsi62vUvUvzcSOTrOW1QTo1XQ0tfM52QbPr-asoVf5UQ5iEb8wjfsZ3fSYNt0wbMkB-ANWdUk6lb7IMctDHv-k97r1T8NzZddbx0Uo1mq8IRZa-emZtr0p6VBCbXhd-zPjLC9"
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title="http://rs6.net/tn.jsp?et=1102878250501&s=2761&e=001GCQRvDWWio9VqdgKxH5ka5XkUUSUmFWBbXSArjKjhTtaDOpWohH_PRRKv98bxvAubhTlGoXmbGveN7sRWa6GEz4ju1VmK5fz7-OqpEpiZsRNmEHUh-ZPKMJQ_9Lmsi62vUvUvzcSOTrOW1QTo1XQ0tfM52QbPr-asoVf5UQ5iEb8wjfsZ3fSYNt0wbMkB-ANWdUk6lb7IMct"><span
style='font-size:24.0pt'>the popularity of the USDA's Biomass Crop Assistance
Program has soared, with the number of qualifying facilities now exceeding 280</span></a></span><span
style='font-size:24.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:black'>. 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><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:18.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>Conservationist,</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:18.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'> I
believe the time has come here in Missouri to begin a very strategic plan</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:18.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>on
how we can become not only serious players in the biomass industry, but how can</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:18.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>we
improve wildlife habitat at the same time. I will emphatically state there is</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:18.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>known
scientific evidence that will validate this claim--especially all CRP lands
that</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:18.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>currently--and
maybe futuristically--are enrolled in a plant material--like fescue and </span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:18.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>brome--that
has very little environmental benefits. </span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:18.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>
In order to move an idea forward there has to be action. And there is no action</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:18.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>until
there is movement. My passion and cause for our state is to add wildlife,</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<div>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:18.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>environmental
and green energy benefits for Northern Missouri. How do we add</span><o:p></o:p></p>
</div>
<div>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:18.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>value
to an economically depressed area? Firstly, like a Doctor's oath of promise </span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:18.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>for
receiving his degree: "Never to do Harm." We need to emulate
nature's blueprint</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<div>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:18.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>and
follow a path of least resistance. It is always more difficult to bend
mother</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<div>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:18.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>nature
to our wants, than it is to assimilate to an ideology</span> <span
style='font-size:18.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>that heeds to bending</span><o:p></o:p></p>
</div>
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<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:18.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>with her.</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:18.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>
One known truth evident here in N. Missouri is that we can grow
native grass and</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<div>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:18.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>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><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:18.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>rebuilding
CRP with an ecologically sound plant material that will boost biodiversity </span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:18.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>and
reviving rural economies. </span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:18.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>
Please do not take my word for any of this, use the science at hand. There</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:18.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>are
entrepreneurs willing and hoping for such an opportunity. Does anyone </span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<div>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:18.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>out
there have any suggestions on where or how to begin this endeavor? We
have </span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<div>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:18.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>nearly
1.5 million acres of CRP here in Missouri. One plan could be that
once</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:18.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>the
re-established CRP acres of any single tract of ground was deemed ready</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:18.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>to be
engaged into a regime of biomass/wildlife management rotation, one forth
to one</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<div>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:18.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>third
of the tract would be allowed to be harvested in the months of October</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:18.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>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><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:18.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>harvested--rather
it be one third to one forth--would be eligible for a late spring
burn </span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<div>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:18.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>to
encourage both forb growth and grass development. When there is plenty of</span><o:p></o:p></p>
</div>
<div>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:18.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>thatch
build-up, there are less forbs that will have vigorous growth. We have</span><o:p></o:p></p>
</div>
<div>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:18.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>experienced
this fact in our production fields. It works like this. Plants store starches</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:18.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>and
sugars in their roots systems. In early spring, if there is a canopy of thatch
which</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:18.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>creates
enormous shade, when the emerging plant sends it first two basal leaves </span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:18.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>for
light scouting, perennial and long lived native plants will not take the risk
of</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:18.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>expending large
amounts of root reserves to overtake the canopy--just too risky. </span><o:p></o:p></p>
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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><o:p></o:p></p>
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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
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In the beginning of the Conservation Reserve Program, the goals of preventing
soil erosion and cleaning up our streams was an industrious and very
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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 Plant Material Center
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Bradford Farm will yield much to the enhancement of a myriad of wildlife and
biomass concerns. Thanks to all those partners supporting these exigencies.
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