Re: Policy reaffirmation

[Jody Nolin <jody.nolin@gmail.com>]

I agree.
Perhaps SIGNA should also publicize this policy.
A policy that is unknown is the same as no policy at all, as we used
to say when I was a planning director.  Man, that was a long time ago!


On Thu, Jan 29, 2009 at 9:16 AM, Robert Pries
<robertpries@embarqmail.com> wrote:
> I am grateful for all the support members of the board have shown for this 50
> year old policy of not charging a registration fee for species with proper
> collection data. I would like to hear from the remaining board members. I
> would hope we would be unanimously in agreement with this old policy. I
> donb t believe this really requires a vote since in essence it is already in
> place. I do believe the scientific committee should make some defining notes
> as to what would be required to constitute proper collection data and what may
> be desired to have on file. This could be reported later in a bulletin
> article. Presently Mike Lowe simply puts in the registration (collected in
> COUNTY, STATE), That maybe is sufficient for publication in the R&I. But as
> keeper of the SIGNA checklist I can say I would be happy to add more, such as
> habitat information.
>
>
>
> B
>
> Mike and I have agreed that one of our biggest problems has been getting
> plants registered. It was a major impetus form the formation of AIS 89 years
> ago and it still is not totally solved. Many people understand cultivars as
> garden hybrids. It has been particularly difficult in educating the majority
> to the fact that a cultivar can be a species selection and even harder for
> them to understand that the selection may come from the wild.
>
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