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to exempt an area from the obnoxious vegetation provisions of the Code as currently written. <br />From: ALVERSON Ed R <br />To: RHAY Tim W <br />Subject: Westmoreland Park mowing <br />Date: Thursday, June 13, 1996 10:26AM <br />I got a message today from Susanna Saxton and she said she has not completed collecting the buttercup <br />seed from the site. Though she didn't say so directly the gist of her message was that she thought she <br />would be able to finish sometime next week. Also, the site west of the community center has a good <br />stand of California oat grass, another species that they plan to collect. In response to my query, she didn't <br />know yet whether they needed this site for that species or there were other sites available. She needed to <br />get in touch with Kathy Pendergrass of BLM to make that determination. The California oat grass seed is <br />mature and ready to be collected in the last week of June or first week of July. I understand the position <br />you're in relative to the neighbor complaints about the grass, but at the same time, this whole issue of <br />seed collecting sites (or the lack thereof) for wetland restoration projects is a major issue. In a way, the <br />area west of the community center is especially valuable for seed collecting because since it is not an area <br />recieving any special protection, we don't need to be as concerned about the impacts of collecting the <br />seeds on the populations as we might be at a more pristine site. So, it seems that there are some policy <br />issues here related to the use of city lands for seed collecting that should probably be discussed. Perhaps <br />the INRT meeting would be a good place to do so. I will also forward this message to Deborah Evans so <br />she is aware of the situation. <br />-Ed <br />Page 2 <br />