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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body lang=EN-US link="#0563C1" vlink="#954F72"><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif'>Does anyone have an update on how much invasive species removal increases carbon sequestration and reverses climate change?<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><div><div style='border:none;border-top:solid #E1E1E1 1.0pt;padding:3.0pt 0in 0in 0in'><p class=MsoNormal><b>From:</b> Marc Imlay <ialm@erols.com> <br><b>Sent:</b> Sunday, October 18, 2020 11:38 AM<br><b>To:</b> '30x30 presenter attended Chris Yoder' <chris.yoder@mdsierra.org><br><b>Cc:</b> 'former member invasives attended Nat Places listserv Chuck Woolery' <chuck@igc.org>; 'jv.medina42@gmail.com' <jv.medina42@gmail.com>; 'Nat Places attended Nat Places listserv Linda Rieger' <lindarieger@verizon.net><br><b>Subject:</b> statistics<o:p></o:p></p></div></div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif'>Hi Chris,<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif'>My comments today on replacing lawns with native meadows to accomplish 30 x 30. Can we find out statistically how this compares to forests in reducing climate change? <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif'>Marc<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:16.0pt'>It is not just forests. Native plant meadows are natural places in Maryland. Maryland as originally about 80% forest and 20 % open space<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:16.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></span></b></p><p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:16.0pt'>Properly maintained meadows, as well as forests, is another way to reduce climate change. A great local example is several acres at Port Tobacco River Park, maintained by Southern Maryland Audubon Society, Port Tobacco River Conservancy, and Charles County (and myself leading the charge to remove the few invasives ). <o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:16.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></span></b></p><p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:16.0pt'>NIH has converted much of their lawn to properly maintained meadows. As I drive around I see that many agencies are doing this now. It saves them a lot of $ to mow just once a year. Send the cows back to Asia and bring back the buffalo which mow at a height of one foot and the native plants are so happy, Indian grass, switch gras, bluestem and Joe-pye weed. <o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><span style='font-size:22.5pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif'>Grassland in Sligo Creek’s Powerline Corridor Mowed<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><span style='font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif'> </span><a href="https://mdflora.org/resources/Publications/Marilandica/Marilandica_v10n2.pdf" target="_blank"><span style='font-size:22.5pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:blue'>https://mdflora.org/resources/Publications/Marilandica/Marilandica_v10n2.pdf</span></a><o:p></o:p></p></div><div id="DAB4FAD8-2DD7-40BB-A1B8-4E2AA1F9FDF2">
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