Illinois Valley News, Cave Junction, Ore. Wednesday, July 19, 2017
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Healthy U News: by Nicole Rensenbrink
Litter
I love our beautiful valley.
I often am reverent about its
beauty and grateful I get to
live here. Driving from Grants
Pass down into Sauer’s Flat
and seeing that marvelous
section of farmland with the
high Siskiyous in the distance is
always a blessing.
But, there’s nothing that
detracts from it as much as
looking down at the road and
seeing fast food cups, a dirty
diaper, an empty beer can
or an ashtray dump. Litter
shouts, “Trashy” across
a gorgeouslandscape as
effectively as the slash mark in
the middle of a circle negates
whatever’s inside it. Litter says
“I don’t care” and “this place
doesn’t matter.”
Even small items of litter
are problems: according to
the website litteritcostsyou.
com, 50 percent of all litter is
cigarette butts made of cellulose
acetate that takes 10 years to
disintegrate.
And sometimes one
person’s spring-cleaning
becomes a community mess:
another source of litter falls to
the road from uncovered truck
beds (plenty of us have seen that
following a pickup on a dump
run).
There are tons of litter,
not only on land, but also in
the sea. Sadly, 1.9 billion
tons end up in the ocean every
year. According to wdcs.org,
are responsible to either add
or detract from. One of the
reasons people litter is because
litter is there already. Others
don’t want to walk the distance
to the next trash can: a Walt
Disney study surveyed how far
people are willing to hike to
a trashcan. It found that trash
receptacles must be placed
within 30 feet of each other in
order to be consistently used.
Is it possible that others,
new to adulthood, see littering
as a statement about their power
to do whatever they want?
Perhaps, as the age group found
to litter most are those between
18-34.
No matter what the reason,
littering is a choice we don’t
have to make.
ocean litter has a devastating
impact on sea creatures: an
estimated one million birds and
100,000 marine mammals and
sea turtles die each year from
being become trapped in plastic
or eating it. It is one of biggest
threats to whales and dolphins.
Litter’s expensive.
According to Keep America
Beautiful, litter reduces
community property values
by seven percent and the U.S.
spends $11.5 billion on cleanup
each year.
Litter seems to me to come
from ignorance, convenience,
or rebelliousness. Perhaps
some people were raised in
environments plagued by
trash and think of litter as a
fact instead of something they
Imagine how our valley
would look if it was free of
all litter. Imagine attractive
trashcans with cigarette butt
disposal features within an easy
walk for everyone in each of our
small towns, and imagine that
everyone used them. Imagine
that the quarterly CJ Clean Up
Day (like it on Facebook to
learn how to join) had hundreds
of Valley folk searching far and
wide for any remaining trash to
pick up.
Imagine all of us working
together, to make our valley
shine.
The staff and volunteers of
Healthy U present this column
as part of their mission to
promote health in the Illinois
Valley.
County asks for cannabis advisory committee members
Jason McMillen
IVN Contributing Writer
The long debated cannabis advisory committee,
which directly supports the Josephine County Board of
Commissioners with information, advice and opinions, was
approved as of July 7, 2017. The motion, designated 2017-
033, carried two to zero in favor of forming the committee.
Commissioner Lily Morgan was not present at the weekly
business session, and therefore couldn’t vote, but has advocated
for the committee’s formation in the past.
The group will be formed as soon as possible and will
ideally consist of nine at-large members. The final number of
members, according to Commissioner Simon Hare, depends
on the number and quality of the applications they receive.
Positions on the committee will be appointed by the board of
directors. Hare hopes that the group will be formed by the end
of the month and that it, like all other advisory committees
in Josephine County, is volunteer based. As such, committee
membership is unpaid. “I hope we have a good variety of
applicants to choose from,” Morgan wrote on the topic, “We
are looking for people who want to be part of solutions in our
community.”
Applicants who wish to be on the committee must be
Josephine County residents and have a stake in the cannabis
industry. Some examples, though not limited to this list,
are: producers, processors, agricultural suppliers, land use
representatives, prevention specialists, water systems experts
and citizen advisory committee representatives. Terms are two
years in duration but there are no restrictions as to how many
times a member can be re-appointed. It should also be noted
that term length can be expanded in the future, should it be
desired by the board of directors. Applications can be found on
the Josephine County website under “committees.”
The group’s first task, after having its chair, vice chair,
community development director and liaison appointed, will
be to review the proposed rural residential restrictions for
commercial recreation cannabis production, according to Hare.
The plan to prohibit the growth of commercial, recreational
cannabis in rural residential zones is to force growing
operations into the agricultural areas of Josephine County.
Hare said that a project study revealed that the county has
around 20,000 arable acres of agriculturally zoned land that
are underutilized for agricultural purposes. Another goal of
the push to get OLCC licensed growers out of rural residential
zones is to “avoid conflict with neighbors” though, as of May
2017, there hasn’t been a single complaint filed against them.
Regarding the further regulation of cannabis,
Commissioner Dan DeYoung said in a recent, private, meeting
with Illinois Valley residents that he has an idea for acquiring
tax dollars from growing operations though it’s still in the
concept stage. The tax would be based on the square footage
of growing operations and would charge them a set amount
for every foot of land that is used in their grow site. Although
he has met with resistance at the state level on the subject, the
state’s position being that taxing a specific commodity is not
possible, he said that they’ve already set a precedent for it.
“You tax Doug fir and pine,” DeYoung said.
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