Thereare a few aspects to this discussion which no one seems to have brought
up. If we produce
cellulosic ethanol from switchgrass, which is a standing crop all spring and
summer, then we are
potentially providing wildlife habitat where there would otherwise be shopping
malls or monotypic
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>Cheers,
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>David
To provide context, here is the text which stimulated David's
comment, together with the initial stimulus, should you need to refer
to it for clarification (the most relevant text is in [[ ]] the rest
you can probably ignore):
Subject: Ecology and
Most Grand High Fellow Ecologgers:
Speaking of Mexico and corn, there's a great pair of photographs in
A. Starker Leopold's "Wildlife of Mexico: the game birds and mammals"
(1959) illustrating several feet of soil erosion of a corn field and
the resulting apparent loss of "yield." (I don't rec
