Minimize Herbicide Spray

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Public Works Staff and Lane County Commissioners

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Pesticides are, by design, toxic to living organisms and by their very use, spread into the environment exposing people and wildlife. The obligation of the County Board of Health is to protect public health; using toxic chemicals should be discouraged.

The undersigned Lane County residents urge the County to adhere to the existing Last Resort Policy (Lane Code 15.500 %u2013 15.530), a policy that requires verifiable integrated vegetation management that prioritizes safer non-chemical alternatives, and herbicides are used only as a last resort when other methods are documented and proven ineffective.

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# 59:

10:16 pm PDT, May 28, Rachel Spath, California

# 58:

10:18 pm PDT, May 9, Marisabel Terry, Texas

# 57:

2:33 pm PDT, Apr 26, JAMES SULLIVAN, Illinois

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12:29 am PDT, Apr 19, Julia Tawyea, Pennsylvania

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1:47 pm PDT, Apr 7, Name not displayed, New York

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11:09 am PDT, Apr 2, Ginger Geronimo, Alabama

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9:58 pm PDT, Mar 28, Catherine C, Canada

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11:51 pm PDT, Mar 26, Victoria Thomas, Wyoming

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8:58 am PDT, Mar 26, Name not displayed, Oregon

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3:50 pm PDT, Mar 22, Ines Seidel, Germany

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3:22 pm PDT, Mar 22, Jessica Lizotte, Canada

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2:42 pm PDT, Mar 22, Maria Dixon, Spain

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3:22 pm PDT, Mar 20, Anne Seidel, Germany

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1:59 pm PDT, Mar 20, Barbara Schiano, New York

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11:43 am PDT, Mar 17, Courtney Boeck, Michigan

# 44:

12:33 pm PDT, Mar 11, Lara Abrams, California

# 43:

1:12 pm PDT, Mar 10, John Tarantino, Oregon
Enough with the unnecessary practice and overuse of chemical herbicides and roadside spray. Please stop this now.

# 42:

6:09 pm PDT, Mar 9, INGRID PEETERS, Spain

# 41:

1:21 pm PST, Mar 3, Debbie Schlenoff, Oregon
Please help to protect the health of Lane County's residents and wildlife by not allowing the roadside spraying of chemical herbicides.

# 39:

1:25 am PST, Mar 3, Steve Klein, Canada

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2:33 pm PST, Feb 29, Steve Dale, Australia

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2:50 am PST, Feb 28, Sandra Stubbs, Delaware

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5:28 pm PST, Feb 27, TAYLOR WEIDNER, Colorado

# 35:

4:22 pm PST, Feb 27, Yisroel Feldman, California

# 34:

3:31 pm PST, Feb 27, RIVER FRANCE, Canada

# 33:

10:13 am PST, Feb 27, Karen VDay, Indiana

# 32:

2:04 pm PST, Feb 26, Name not displayed, Kentucky

# 31:

1:43 pm PST, Feb 26, Angela S, California

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7:12 am PST, Feb 26, Name not displayed, New York

# 29:

7:17 pm PST, Feb 23, Anthony Montapert, California

# 28:

6:02 pm PST, Feb 22, Gale Weaner, Texas
Having worked in an agri-chemical plant producing herbicides, I can tell you that the stuff is bad-nasty. These chemicals do not go away; the chemicals that do not get absorbed by the plants get washed into the watershed or seep into the water table. Use all alternative methods at your disposal, if you care at all about public and worker health.

# 27:

7:49 am PST, Feb 22, Catherine Smalley, United Kingdom

# 26:

10:23 am PST, Feb 21, Jonathan Bowers, Oregon

# 25:

9:11 pm PST, Feb 20, Mark Allen, Oregon

# 24:

1:14 pm PST, Feb 20, Rachel Jordan, Oregon

# 23:

8:04 pm PST, Feb 19, Wendy Friedman, Oregon
We simply must act in a smart fashion, considering the long term effect of chemical herbacides and working to use alternatives, always. Thank you for listening!

# 22:

4:21 pm PST, Feb 19, Lisa Arkin, Oregon
Please keep the Last Resort Policy strong!

# 21:

2:59 pm PST, Feb 19, Charlotte Sahnow, Oregon
We should absolutely reverse this routine of spraying herbicides, pesticides 7 other noxious chemicals that our environment overflows with due to mindless practices that continue to poison our soil, water & air!!! Current research literature warns us of these dangers & overuse.

# 20:

8:00 am PST, Feb 19, Judith Fernandes, Oregon

# 19:

12:51 am PST, Feb 19, Ingrid Edstrom FNP, M.Ed., Oregon
I am a Family Nurse Practitioner and owner of Infrared Breast Health,LLC and creator of the Proactive Breast Wellness Program. The Infrared camera can detect changes in the breast tissue 3-6 years prior to mammogram detection. Oregon now has the 2nd highest breast cancer rate per capita. We were third last year. The women who have had toxic exposure to pesticides and herbicides have a particular vascular display in their breast tissues of estrogen dominance due to these Xenoestrogens/ estrogen mimickers that bind with the estrogen receptor sites in the fat tissue. Estrogen dominance appears to be a precursor to breast cancer over time. Little girls are developing breasts at age 8 or 9 years of age. Young men who are applying these sprays are having trouble conceiving children later when married. These same chemicals are contributing to the sky rocketing statistics of prostate cancer. I want to have you ban the use of herbicides along the county roads and the spraying in the clear cut regions on timber lands. I have a power point program to show the effects of these chemical exposures to a woman's breasts. I am doing a clinical research study and I am following these women through their cancer therapies. This roadside spraying is a public health hazard to all of us since the spray stays on our clothes, the fur of our pets that we pat and lay on our rugs or beds and it gets absorbed through our skin. If it is aerial sprayed it floats on the air and gets into ground water/ wells and into streams. The risk is also very high for our children. We have a much higher incidence for MS, ADD and ADHD here in the valley as well. Please do not risk the health of the people that you are supposed to be protecting. They stopped using the herbicides in the timber industries in Switzerland and Austria because it was making too many of the people sick and they have socialized medicine so the State has to pay for the care. We should learn from these other countries. I am from Massachusetts and there we mow our roadsides and create jobs. We do not spray. Having more jobs and a state with lower breast cancer statistics than here would seem to me to have many positive advantages. Let us weigh some roadside weeds in comparison to multiple health hazards for our population. Which will you choose??? Respectfully, Ingrid Edstrom FNP, M.Ed. www.InfraredBreastHealth.com

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11:32 pm PST, Feb 18, Janice Marshall, Oregon
I live on a county road and it is especially disturbing to have this spraying occur. We walk our country road and keep it clean, picking up litter and bottles. It is toxic not only to the fish and birds and animals, but also to the people who walk on our roads, to spray herbicides and pesticides. The policy is minimal use of these toxics, and I believe it is important for our health to use other methods used, mowing, etc., to keep down weeds and foliage. This has worked very well as we have watched it be effective on our roads for the past three years.

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11:53 am PST, Feb 12, PROUT Institute, Oregon
Please refrain from doing road side spraying. These chemicals not only affect the plants and weeds you are spraying, but the airborne chemicals also affects humans, and other animals in the area. Thank you for considering this for the environment and citizens of Lane County. Kaverii Blochlinger

# 16:

10:53 am PST, Feb 9, Name not displayed, Oregon
This issue is very important to public health and safety. Please make responsible choices with this far reaching policy.

# 15:

7:31 am PST, Feb 9, Janet Russell, Oregon
I manage my own acres without using pesticides or herbicides (2.5 acres near Alvadore and 40 acres of forest land in Cottage Grove), and sincerely urge Lane County to do the same.

# 14:

10:08 pm PST, Feb 8, Karen Stingle, Oregon
Several times when the state roads (Hwy 36) were sprayed I came down with flu-like symptoms, and only when driving back on the road a couple of days later and seeing the plants turning brown did I realize why I felt the way I did. I may be a canary in a coal mine, but I believe that even if we don't experience such symptoms directly we are still affected. Why do so many of us have cancer? Fibroids? Immune system dysfunction? It is just plain wrong to add to our toxic load. NO PESTICIDES ON OUR COUNTY ROADS!!!

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7:49 pm PST, Feb 8, Chris Roth, Oregon
Please continue the existing "only as a last resort" herbicide policy--or, if there is any change, discontinue herbicides altogether. Poisons applied to roadsides (or anywhere) have unintended consequences that are usually worse, in the long run, than the "problem" they were trying to address. And in the long run, the problem itself often gets worse when not addressed in a more holistic, preventative manner. Thanks for what you've done so far to minimize herbicide use.

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6:50 pm PST, Feb 8, Carolina Lyddy, Oregon
Please continue with the current "last resort" policy. Herbicides harm people, animals, plants, and water. I am also concerned about the effects of herbicide runoff on our food supply, particularly as to how it effects our organic farms. The extra money spent on non-chemical weed management will be balanced by long-term savings in health and environmental restoration.

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4:52 pm PST, Feb 8, Felice stein Stein, Oregon
Please don't spray. lisn stein

# 10:

2:57 pm PST, Feb 8, Rachel Foster, Oregon
Please don't change the last resort policy! Herbicides are bad for wildlife and vulnerable human populations.

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12:39 pm PST, Feb 8, Mary Bolton, Oregon
please continue the Last Resort Policy. do not spray toxic pesticides anywhere.

# 8:

12:14 pm PST, Feb 8, Name not displayed, Oregon

# 7:

12:14 pm PST, Feb 8, Name not displayed, Oregon
please

# 6:

12:01 pm PST, Feb 8, TD Turner, Oregon
PLEASE use alternative, safe measures such as Integrated Vegetation Management and the like. Let's keep Oregon beautiful and toxic-free! These chemicals HARM people and the environment!

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1:25 pm PST, Feb 7, Mary Perrizo, Oregon
I am a senior citizen and I have children who are asthmatic. The toxins in the roadside spraying are bad for my health and my children's health, and for the health of all other citizens in our area. I have been on five care teams for friends with cancer and have lost several friends to cancer. I know that these toxins also have an impact on the incidence of cancer in our local population. It is the height of stupidity to use such substances and expose our citizens to the tragic health impacts that they can cause. Please continue to use them as little as possible or not at all. Thank you so much.

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8:42 am PST, Feb 7, Wali Via, Oregon
I have been a rural resident of Lane County since 1974 and am an organic farmer, employing 40 people in the peak of our season. I am always concerned about pesticide drift and runoff which could seriously impact our markets and the jobs of our employees if our land was contaminated. Also, my wife and many others run along our rural roadsides. They should not have to be exposed to toxins to do so. I understand that pesticides may save money and be more effective at weed control. But we can not let short-sighted economic concerns outweigh the concern for the health of our environment including the humans who reside upon it. Please do not spray our rural roadsides! Wali Via Winter Green Farm

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12:31 am PST, Feb 6, Carter McKenzie, Oregon

# 2:

7:03 pm PST, Feb 5, Marilyn Lowe, Oregon
Lane County, keep your word! Lane County residents have made it very clear: We want herbicides used only as a last resort! Don't send us back twenty years to the time when herbicides were used first and the victims had to prove they were harmed. These substances are not non-toxic. Even though you state the herbicides you use are not acutely toxic to humans, this does not mean they are harmless. Please, use herbicides ONLY as a last resort!

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