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THE DAILY ASTORIAN • TUESDAY, OCTOBER 4, 2016
Aerial spraying rattles coastal residents
Concerns raised
about pesticides
used by timber
companies
By LYRA FONTAINE
The Daily Astorian
ARCH CAPE — Nancy
Webster
became
con-
cerned about aerial spray-
ing after smelling pesti-
cides in the air near her
Rockaway Beach home.
“That began the growing con-
cern of what’s happening
with our drinking water and
our air,” Webster said, adding
that the spraying could affect
birds, ish, soil and more.
“This is happening up and
down the coast.”
Webster, a member of
the Rockaway Beach Citi-
zens for Watershed Protec-
tion, is pushing for more
timely public notiications,
since currently, “the notiica-
tion is seeing a helicopter.”
The group also seeks an end
to aerial spraying on the Ore-
gon Coast.
At Short Sand Beach in
Oswald West State Park, local
activists and area surfers gath-
ered in late September to raise
awareness about pesticides
that would be sprayed on har-
vested forest land nearby.
According to the citizens
group, Weyerhaeuser recently
clearcut parcels of forestland,
including several bordering
Oswald West State Park, Arch
Cape and Neahkahnie Moun-
tain. Weyerhaeuser com-
pleted the aerial spraying on
the harvested forest land near
Oswald West on Wednes-
day, according to the Oregon
Department of Forestry.
Notiication needed
The notiication system is
a “step toward better notiica-
tion,” but Webster said it isn’t
enough and that spraying could
occur within a time frame as
large as six months.
With modern technology,
timber companies could send
out an electronic notice before
the helicopter takes off, she
said, and other timber com-
panies have posted two-week
notices after receiving phone
calls from residents.
“The big problem with the
aerial spraying is you can’t get
real-time notiications,” said
Jane Anderson, a Garibaldi res-
ident. “People need to know
that this is happening. They
may tell you they’re going to
do it in six months. If you’d
like to leave the area to protect
yourself, you’d have no idea
when that would be.”
Anderson and her husband
found out about aerial spray-
ing while hiking through the
woods several years ago.
“We saw liers on trees and
we were surprised,” Anderson
said. “We had no idea that was
happening.”
While the citizens group
voiced concerns about chemi-
cals drifting into Oswald West
and Short Sand beach, forester
Skinner said there was a “low
risk” that chemicals would drift
from the treated area, because
the application is done at a low
elevation and the chemicals
cannot be sprayed in the wind.
The group would like state
legislators to change Oregon’s
forest practices law.
“I felt really good about
reaching out and educating
people,” Webster said. “We
believe it’s a public health
issue.”
“The main focus is to let
folks know what’s happen-
ing in their forest,” Anderson
said. “Hopefully we’ll be able
to put enough pressure on our
legislators so that they will
decide aerial spraying is a risky
practice.”
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Herbicide for regrowth
Timber companies are
required to notify the Oregon
Department of Forestry of
planned operations, said Til-
lamook District Forest Kath-
erine Skinner.
“At this point, there is no
required notiication of gen-
eral citizens,” Skinner said.
“In this particular issue in
Oswald West State Park,
Weyerhaeuser has notiied
adjacent landowners.”
Skinner said some tim-
ber companies in Tillamook
County voluntarily give res-
idents a shorter notice of
planned spraying.
Weyerhaeuser
went
through proper notiication
channels before spraying,
said Park Manager Ben Cox,
with Oregon State Parks.
When planting after harvest-
ing forest, Weyerhaeuser
may use herbicides to control
weeds, brush and invasive
species that compete with tree
seedlings for sunlight, nutri-
ents and water, Weyerhaeuser
Public Affairs Manager Greg
Miller said in an email. The
Oregon Forest Practices Act
requires replanting within
two years after harvest and
the seedlings must be “free-
to-grow” within six years.
“Without herbicide use,
reforestation may be unsuc-
cessful, thus we would be
out of compliance with state
reforestation laws,” Miller
wrote. “Once tree seedlings
are established, herbicides are
rarely used again in the same
forest cycle, except along
road right of ways.”
The pesticides help the
trees get a head start before
the competing species and
prepares the site for tree
replanting this winter, Skin-
ner said.
Weyerhaeuser notiied the
Oregon Department of For-
estry and applied herbicides
in compliance with state
and federal regulations and
law, Miller said. The pub-
lic has access to notiica-
tions online through the state
department’s Forest Activ-
ity Electronic Reporting and
Notiication System. In addi-
tion, Weyerhaeuser commu-
nicated to the adjacent parks
department about the chem-
ical application and posted a
range of dates for operation at
locations with potential public
access.
“We also went beyond for-
est practice requirements by
leaving an untreated buffer
along the shared state park
property boundary,” Miller
wrote.
Submitted Photo
Jane Anderson of Garibaldi, Vivi Tallman of Manzanita
and Nancy Webster of Rockaway Beach at Oswald West
State Park.
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