Beyond Native / Invasive. By Bill McDorman

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1 Beyond Native / Invasive By Bill McDorman

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3 Population Average Temperature CO 2 GDP Water Use Species Extinction Foreign Investment Present

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7 "Permaculture is a philosophy of working with, rather than against nature Bill Mollison

8 What is Native to North America? It took centuries before the brown of North America once again turned to green

9 The Chicxulub asteroid impact sprayed molten rock far into the present Canada and created a shockwave that flattened trees across the continent. North America lost 80% of its flowering plant species. Keith Thomas

10 North America bore the brunt of the impact because it lay in the direct line of the chip shot

11 North America as a vast field of churned rock and clay. From north to south all brown, little moving

12 Dawn Redwood (Metasequoia glyptostroboides)

13 What is Native to Arizona? In Arizona, natives include cat s claw, agave, chia, mesquite, ephedra, ocotillo, hackberry, perennial chiles, barberry, palo verde, prickly pear, pinyon pine, lemonade berry, jojoba, wolfberry, and yucca throughout the landscape These plants have come to be known as native, wild, and natural, but in fact, they were intentionally cultivated.

14 Agave verdensis and A. yavapaiensis The discovery of these two new species brings the total number of putative Arizona Agave domesticates to five.

15 Pre-settlement Riparian Horse Impact

16 Pre Grazing-Crisis Natives? UNITED STATES GOVERNMENT PRINTING OFFICE WASHINGTON : 1937

17 Pioneer Cemeteries Kipukas

18 What is our response to invasives? Scott Pruitt, the head of the Environmental Protection Agency, moved late on Wednesday to reject the scientific conclusion of the agency s own chemical safety experts. New York Times, March 29, 2017

19 Chlorpyrifos Developmental Toxicity Chlorpyrifos has been toxic to the fetus in laboratory animals at doses toxic to the mother. Did not cause birth defects in laboratory animals. Human birth defects have been associated with exposure to chlorpyrifos products. Chlorpyrifos has caused genetic damage in human blood and lymph cells, mice spleen cells, and hamster bone marrow cells.

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21 Remembering the words of my father years ago, I decided to become a knapweed-weevil millionaire. Larinus minutus Centaurea maculosa Cyphocleonus achates

22 Reduction in Spotted Knapweed from Root Weevil and Flower Weevil

23 Velvet Mesquite (Prosopis velutina) Although regarded as a noxious plant because of its interference with livestock production, mesquite has an emerging image as a resource which should be managed. Texas A&M

24 The Reasonable Landscape No Water No Maintenance No Biocides

25 You Can Put Back Your Native Landscape

26 You Need New Topsoil

27 Biocides are Necessary

28 Glyphosate Residue Free Certification

29 Wild Seeds are Organic

30 Wild Seeds Need Little or No Care

31 Wildflower Mixes are Perennial

32 The Church of the Native Will Save You

33 Wild Seeds 1. Reasonable Landscape 2. Myths 3. Resources 4. Wildcrafting 5. Examples

34 Best Source of Information - Local Use The 5-year Test

35 Reframe Your Approach Modern mind meets complex biological problem No mistakes. We are all pioneers.

36 Understand Your Plant Succession

37 Use Succession To Your Advantage 1. Skip Pioneer Phase 2. Only Use Plants Appropriate to the Succession Stage 3. Mow to Control Weeds

38 Online Wild Seed Market nativeseednetwork.org/

39 Verde Native Seed Cooperative

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