permaculture

[Keith Johnson <keithdj@mindspring.com>]

Martha and Carolyn,
Have you seen Jerome Osentowski's / Central Rocky Mountain 
Permaculture's video, Natural Controls for Noxious Weeds? You can get a 
copy of it at the website ( www.crmpi.org ) or by calling 970-927-4158
Keith Johnson

MARTHA ANNE BOYD wrote:

> Hi again - 
>
> Also from the Beyond Pesticides conference - the Bureau of Land Management is 
> writing an Environmental Impact Statement on vegetation treatments that will 
> guide its invasive plant control methods on BLM land (1.2 million acres in 19 
> states.) While both the Dept of Defense and Fish and Wildlife have been 
> instructed to cut back on pesticide use, they don't necessarily use a 
> comprehensive ecological vision, let alone a permacultural one, to guide 
> their management planning.
>
> The Northwest Coalition for Alternatives to Pesticides is working to promote 
> alternatives to pesticide spraying and to get the Dept of Interior to look at 
> how their land management practices encourage invasives.
>
> If this interests anyone and you want to help NCAP with their efforts, 
> contact staff scientist Carolyn Cox - ccox@pesticide.org.
>
> Thanks!
> Martha
>