If you contact DOT commissioners about this issue, please  consider also 
expressing support for the efforts being made by the DOT to  use Iowa-ecotype 
seed.  By using Iowa-ecotype seed, the DOT is helping  to protect the genetic 
integrity of native prairie remnants near their  plantings, and are creating 
plantings that are more appropriate for  Iowa and look and function more like real 
prairies here.
 
Cindy 
 

Cindy Hildebrand
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Ames, IA  50010

"Coming home across the rolling open fields we gathered quite a bouquet  of 
violets, looking carefully for them in the gathering dusk and picking them  
with chilling fingers. These were of the kind the boys call "birds-foot," with  
parted leaves...A long hot summer followed by heavy rains, without heavy frost, 
 may account for this October bloom." (Selden Lincoln Whitcomb writing of a 
walk  near Grinnell on October 22, 1886)

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