permaculture

["Ava Devenport" <essenheal@iname.com>]

On 08/28/00, "Scott Pittman <pci@permaculture-inst.org>" wrote:...
> While I have led the good fight against Russian Olive
> (Elaeagnus angustifolia) which is claiming our riparian areas I recently
> realized that without the Russian Olive these riparian areas would have
> no overstory at all.&nbsp; 

Russian Olive, although not native to CO is also preferred by our Natural 
Resource division for riparian restoration, soil erosion and water 
conservation. I do have a few very old cottonwoods (rotting) left in the 
floodplane, although it very seldom floods anymore, and they are considered 
by NR as 'weed trees', so strange.

Also, when we were in Beline, NM last year for a passive solar adobe 
workshop, I was enchanted with a tree there, possibly you can tell me what 
it is.  It looked very similar to a midwest locust, but had long, dark pods 
and the seeds inside where a chocolate brown color, very hard.  Do you know 
this tree?

Blessings, 
Ava