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<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";
color:#1F497D'>Dr. David Tilman is the most cited scientist regarding this
subject and from all of the information I have been able to gather probably not
biased or influenced by the various interest groups. I am including a science
article on this subject. The other factor that should be considered are the
annual input costs, the maintenance costs, establishment costs and the long
term cost to our environment. How many invasive species do we need to experiment
with before we figure out that maybe nature and God had it figured out with our
prairie. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";
color:#1F497D'> I recently attended a two day seminar on alternative bio fuels
at the University of Illinois that ended up being a big promotional campaign
for Miscanthus. The establishment costs were cited as being $3000.00/ acre,
and no real data on the total life cycle costs. Yields of 40tons per acre
were being tossed around but again no real long term data to provide total
life cycle costs. I just completed a 70 acre planting of 6 different grasses
and 25 forbs on my Putnam county farm and this will cost 10% of this Miscanthus
figure and require very little in the way of additional input or maintenance
cost in the future. An occasional cutting in the early stages of development to
prevent weed competition and a burn or grazing interruption once established. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
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color:#1F497D'>I believe the proven attributes of a bio diverse prairie must be
considered in this new movement towards more invasive species to degrade our
remaining marginal lands and eliminate more wildlife habitat. The CO2
sequestering capability of prairie grasses are getting studied and have been
cited by the University of Minnesota after 20 years of studies. Their ability
to store and filter water are also getting real scientific research and not
just biased promotional advertisement. Our soil erosion problem in Missouri is
one of the worst in the country and could be helped significantly by a prairie
root system that can be 15 ft deep and not only prevent soil erosion but provide
some of the most fertile soil in the nation. These attributes all have a real
$ value and should be identified and quantified. Lets all get more informed on
this subject, especially those responsible for the direction we take in this
exciting new field of alternative energies.<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"'> 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<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'>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></p>
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color:navy'>Scott<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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color:navy'><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"'> 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>
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<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.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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color:navy'><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";
color:navy'>Amy Hamilton<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";
color:navy'>Hamilton Native Outpost <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"'> 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><b><span style='font-size:36.0pt;font-family:"Trebuchet MS","sans-serif";
color:#006600;background:yellow'>Policy and Policymakers</span></b><span
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</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><span style='font-size:18.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";
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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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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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<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>
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<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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<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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<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>
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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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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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<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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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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entrepreneurs willing and hoping for such an opportunity. Does anyone </span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<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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<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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engaged into a regime of biomass/wildlife management rotation, one forth
to one</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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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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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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encourage both forb growth and grass development. When there is plenty of</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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build-up, there are less forbs that will have vigorous growth. We have</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<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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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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enormous shade, when the emerging plant sends it first two basal leaves </span><o:p></o:p></p>
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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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There are many possibilities that could be worked out. Currently, though, I
believe</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
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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<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:18.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>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><o:p></o:p></p>
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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
successful </span><o:p></o:p></p>
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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
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"'>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><o:p></o:p></p>
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