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To: Laxalt
Sheep are more efficient with grasses. They destroy 98% of the seed.

You are forgetting that the bigger the environmental problem is, the bigger will be the budget to "fix" it (which, of course, never happens).
14 posted on 07/21/2003 10:56:12 AM PDT by Carry_Okie (The environment is too complex and too important to be managed by politics.)
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To: Carry_Okie; farmfriend; bedolido
The invader grass grows by cloning, spreading roots that form circular duplicates of the original colony. The clones clone, creating an ever-rising growth curve.

"What it looks like is an accelerating rate of invasion," UC Davis researcher Debra Ayres said. "Instead of exponential growth, we have greater than exponential growth."

I am searching my math handbooks for Greater than Exponential Growth

Have we every seen this before in Biological Organisms?

Found this site:

mathematical epidemiology information

15 posted on 07/21/2003 12:07:48 PM PDT by Ernest_at_the_Beach (Iran Mullahs will feel the heat from our Iraq victory!)
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To: Carry_Okie
Sheep are more efficient with grasses. They destroy 98% of the seed.

There are obvious reasons why sheep cannot be used in the San Francisco area.

16 posted on 07/21/2003 12:10:06 PM PDT by bedolido (Ann Coulter... A Conservative Male's Natural Viagra)
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