{"id":1649,"date":"2014-12-04T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2014-12-04T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.innovationanthology.com\/import\/2018\/02\/01\/innovation-anthology-652\/"},"modified":"2018-02-25T21:30:58","modified_gmt":"2018-02-25T21:30:58","slug":"innovation-anthology-652","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.innovationanthology.com\/import\/2014\/12\/04\/innovation-anthology-652\/","title":{"rendered":"Innovation Anthology #652:"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/innovationanthology.com\/uploads\/Innovation Anthology 652.mp3\">Download MP3 Link<\/a><\/p>\n<style type=\"text\/css\">\n<!--\n \/* Font Definitions *\/\n@font-face\n\t{font-family:Arial;\n\tpanose-1:2 11 6 4 2 2 2 2 2 4;\n\tmso-font-charset:0;\n\tmso-generic-font-family:auto;\n\tmso-font-pitch:variable;\n\tmso-font-signature:-536859905 -1073711037 9 0 511 0;}\n@font-face\n\t{font-family:\"Cambria Math\";\n\tpanose-1:2 4 5 3 5 4 6 3 2 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style=\"mso-bidi-font-style:\nnormal\"><span style=\"font-size:9.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:10.0pt;font-family:\n&quot;Trebuchet MS&quot;\">&nbsp;<\/span><\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><strong style=\"mso-bidi-font-weight:normal\"><span style=\"font-size:9.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:10.0pt;font-family:&quot;Trebuchet MS&quot;\">DR SIMON LANDHAUSSER:<em style=\"mso-bidi-font-style:normal\"><span style=\"color:\nblack\"><span style=\"mso-spacerun:yes\">&nbsp;&nbsp; <\/span><\/span><\/em><\/span><\/strong><em style=\"mso-bidi-font-style:normal\"><u><span style=\"font-size:9.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:\n10.0pt;font-family:&quot;Trebuchet MS&quot;;color:black\"><span style=\"mso-spacerun:yes\"><\/span><\/span><\/u><\/em><em style=\"mso-bidi-font-style:\nnormal\"><span style=\"font-size:9.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:10.0pt;font-family:\n&quot;Trebuchet MS&quot;;color:black\">For example we are looking at growing seedlings which are much taller than the normal seedlings so they can potentially out-compete grass on older reclamation sites.<span style=\"mso-spacerun:yes\">&nbsp;&nbsp; <\/span>A second area is to create soil conditions on the sites which are more favorable for out trees to establish.<span style=\"mso-spacerun:yes\">&nbsp; <\/span>One of the biggest problems is in some areas we<span style=\"mso-spacerun:yes\">&nbsp; <\/span>have really poor soil conditions, so how can we get nutrients and other<span style=\"mso-spacerun:yes\">&nbsp; <\/span>variables to our seedlings without actually giving it away to all kinds of competing vegetation we don&#8217;t want.<span style=\"mso-spacerun:yes\">&nbsp; <\/span>So we are trying to set up sites with<span style=\"mso-spacerun:yes\">&nbsp; <\/span>different operational procedures to kind of hide the nutrients and hide some of the goodies from the plants we don&#8217;t want to grow there and give it to the plants which we want to have there.<\/span><\/em><span 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