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In forests, courts,
Congress, locals
give their best to
Stopping herbicides
A group of Lorane residents have
stopped the federal government from
spraying herbicides on a 30-acre tract of
timberland near their homes.
With volunteers from Eugene, Cottage
Grove and surrounding areas, the residents
have worked 10 days in the rain and mud
removing grass from young Douglas fir
trees, then applying layers of newspaper as
a mulch to prevent the grass from resprout
ing. The Bureau of Land Management had
planned to treat the area with a grass-killing
chemical called atrazine.
The deadline for the hand-clearing
project was Monday, but the BLM extended
that until workers can finish. Jean Palzinski,
one of the residents who persuaded the
BLM to approve the project, says the work
almost is completed.
“I hope this particular incident can set an
example for others who are concerned
about herbicides,” Palzinski says. “Only 3
to 5 acres really needed spraying, but they
were going to spray the whole thing.”
Palzinski says she was concerned mostly
that the chemical would be sprayed into a
nearby creek where some residents get
their water. Representatives from the BLM
visited the site to see how many families
would be affected.
“They say these chemicals aren't dan
gerous, yet they still set up buffer zones,”
she says. "The fact that they're afraid to let
the spray fall in the water negates their
claims that they’re safe.”
Opponents of herbicides say the
chemicals can cause cancer, birth defects
and other mutations. Forest use of 2,4,5-T
was banned last spring when its application
in the Siuslaw National Forest was linked to
a high incidence of miscarriages among
women in the area.
Foresters say herbicides are essential in
fighting vegetation that threatens the
growth of young seedlings. And they use
only those chemicals registered with the
Environmental Protection Agency.
This spring, the U S. Forest Service and
the BLM are applying 2,4-D, atrazine and
other herbicides on about 28,000 acres
throughout Oregon. BLM already has com
pleted its spraying program of some 425
acres in Lane County.
Save Our ecoSystems, a Eugene-based
anti-herbicide group, filed an appeal chal
lenging both the Forest Service and the
BLM spray programs. They also requested
the programs be delayed until the appeals
could be heard. Both requestes were
rejected.
“Our motions to stay asked them to stop
the spraying long enough to review our
arguments,” says Barbara Kelley, a member
of SOS. “But by the time they review our
arguments, they will already have sprayed.”
Joseph Cavan, a Eugene radiologist, also
appealed BLM's plans to spray a 27-acre
tract near his Lorane farm to kill scotch
broom. The area was sprayed last Friday
after Cavan and eight other Lorane area
residents issued a statement to the BLM
spray crew requesting:
“Please consider the harmful medical
effects on the Cavan family, the other
families in the Lorane valley and anyone
else exposed to potential air and water
contamination.”
Congressman Jim Weaver, D-Ore., has
tried to stop spraying programs in both
Oregon and Washington.
“Jim has on numerous occasions asked
both (Max) Peterson, the chief of the Forest
Service, and (William) Leavell, director of
BLM, to stop spraying phenoxy herbicides
and move to manual methods that would
employ lots of people and still get the job
done,” says Dave Fidanque, an aide to
Weaver.
Fidanque says Weaver plans to announce
sometime next week plans for anti-her
bicide legislation and hearings on the issue.
Fidanque says the legislation was
prompted partly “because of unanswered
questions about tests done on many
chemicals before they were registered with
theEPA.”
“The staff is working on legislation that
would address those concerns,” Fidanque
says.
Story by Leslie Farris
Graphics by Sioux Anderson
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