Stop Rough & Ready from spraying POISION!!!!!
posted by friend of CZoll, 10.03.2009 22:53
From: 
schirill@uoregon.edu
Subject: Action Alert - Stop Camp Forest Poisoning
Date: Sat, 7 Mar 2009 08:02:05 -0800
Hi everyone,
I ask for your immediate help in preventing Rough & Ready from spraying the poison triclopyr BEE on the clearcut adjacent to Camp Forest, stewarded and inhabited by Orville and Mary Camp, in Selma, Oregon (S. Oregon) and visited by their grandchildren.
From: schirill@uoregon.edu
Subject: Action Alert - Stop Camp Forest Poisoning
Date: Sat, 7 Mar 2009 08:02:05 -0800
Hi everyone,
I ask for your immediate help in preventing Rough & Ready from spraying the poison triclopyr BEE on the clearcut adjacent to Camp Forest, stewarded and inhabited by Orville and Mary Camp, in Selma, Oregon (S. Oregon) and visited by their grandchildren.
Please send the letter to the Governor's Natural Resource Policy Director, Michael Carrier, below. You can personalize it by telling your own experience being poisoned by a pesticide, express your amazement that our government allows companies to poison citizens like this and without universal health care, marvel at how foolish our government is for rewarding destruction and poisoning of our watersheds, etc. . .
This is as clear a case as it gets of chemical trespass and the government rewarding terrible timber practices while punishing good stewards of the land. Because Rough and Ready timber company could spray as early as Monday (03/08/09) (let's hope for rain which will delay them), it would be best to e-mail the letter and call Carrier at (503) 986-6525 before 8am on Monday. You should also sign and mail the letter, as it could be a week or more before they spray.
The Camps and community members in Selma have already signed onto the letter below. Lisa Arkin of Oregon Toxics Alliance had a promising meeting with Carrier earlier this week, and we hope that the Governor's Office will prevent the poisoning of Camp Forest.
Please also contact:
Jennifer Philipi
Perpetua Forests Company, President
Rough & Ready Lumber Co., Operations Manager
Oregon Board of Forestry Member jenniferp@rrlumber.com
Phone: 541-592-3116 x113
Yes, this timber company CEO sits on the Oregon Board of Forestry, the decision-making body of the Oregon Department of Forestry, and a few others do, too. Our Governor appoints the Board members and the legislature approve them.
Ask for no herbicide application.
We really need your help to let Jennifer Philipi and the Governor's Office know that the word is out all over Oregon about this, and we don't accept it -- it's not just the small community of Selma that knows. In fact, we've made a short Youtube.com film about the clearcut and imminent spray, produced by Trip Jennings of Eugene Rising Tide, that's coming soon.
The Camps' drinking water drains directly from that clearcut, which is bad enough let alone having it be poisoned. In the photo below, the swordfern in the foreground indicates where their water storage tank is, only several feet from the clearcut. Poison application will also impact the endangered species that the Camp Forest harbors. Coho have been confirmed in at least one of the streams that run through Camp Forest. Pesiticide drift happens -- scientists and courts have both recognized this.
For more information about Camp Forest and the practice of ecostry, which has allowed the Camps to selectively remove trees while restoring the land to critical habitat for endangered species, go here:
Campforest.com (undergoing some updates about the imminent spray)
ecostry.com
The Oregon Pesticide Action Working Group and Oregon Toxics Alliance are working with the Camps and other rural communities poisoned by pesticides to help prevent and monitor poisoning and get the laws changed to stop this. Many thanks to Jan Wroncy, Shannon Wilson, Anne Kneeland, and Rich Nawa, as well.
I think a big reason why rural people are still getting poisoned is because the general public isn't aware of it. If we can change that, it should be much easier to stop forestry poisoning across Oregon.
-Samantha Chirillo
OPAWG
Cascadia's Ecosystem Advocates
Eugene Rising Tide
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Natural Resource Policy Director
Governor’s Natural Resources Office
900 Court ST NE
Salem, OR 97301
Michael.Carrier@state.or.us
Dear Mr Carrier,
We request a special protection for Camp Forest, a natural demonstration forest in Selma, Oregon for the past 40 years. Camp Forest has become a showplace demonstrating sustainable practices by retaining a fully functioning ecosystem in which all species of plants and animals are valued. Camp Forest is an “organic” forest operation and deserves the protections to retain the highest certification standards as we are the prototype for developing certification standards for an Ecostry Certification program. Orville Camp, the owner and forest ecosystem manger for Camp Forest, developed the standards and criteria laid out in the Natural Selection Alternative, on file with the BLM, which also met their NEPA Environmental Assessment requirements. It was selected by BLM to be the best alternative to meet the purpose and need for 640 acres (T39S-R7W-Section3) of the South Deer Landscape Management Project in Josephine County.
Camp Forest provides maximum production of all species of forest products, while retaining aesthetic and natural ecosystem values that enhance recreation and tourism. Camp Forest offers sustainable solutions to the industrial forestry hazards of toxic chemical use and boom and bust economic cycles. For more than three decades, this community treasure has been toured by people from near and far from all walks of life.
We request gubernatorial protection for Camp Forest from the imminent threat of herbicide contamination from chemicals slated to be applied on adjoining land that was clearcut in 2008, by Perpetua Forests, part of a local logging conglomerate. Drainage from that land supplies water to two streams inhabited by fish, including cutthroat trout and Coho salmon; and domestic and irrigation water rights to Camp Forest. The drift and runoff from such chemical applications would harm Camp Forest plants and animals, including humans.
Perpetua plans to spray Triclopyr BEE to kill unwanted plant species, which will also poison other species, such as deer that are currently feeding on them, and persists through food chains. By law, Triclopyr BEE is a restricted herbicide requiring extensive buffers for Coho salmon habitat because of its mobility in soil and water and its potential to cause significant harm to endangered fish species. Triclopyr BEE is known to be toxic to fish, to decrease survival of bird nestlings, to cause increase in breast cancer, to cause a type of genetic damage known as dominant lethal mutations, to damage kidneys, to cause reproductive problems, and to disrupt normal growth and development of the nervous system. Since Triclopyr BEE travels through soil, it contaminates ground water, wells, streams and rivers. Triclopyr BEE persists in the environment and will cause ongoing contamination, degradation and harm.
For the health of the Camp family, Camp Forest, Thompson Creek and our community, please do not authorize use of chemicals on Perpetua Forests clearcut land (in T38-R7W-S22), headwaters that drain through and support Camp Forest.
Signed,
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triclopyr BEE hurts salmon 11.03.2009 - 09:16 
SAVE OUR SALMON! Saving salmon through your local garden center by Erika Schreder  http://www.pccnaturalmarkets.com/sc/0806/savingsalmon.html (June 2008) — Next time you visit your local garden center or home improvement store, you can do something very simple that would help protect our native salmon. Take a look around the pesticide section and make sure the store has posted signs identifying certain pesticides as hazardous to salmon. What kind of sign? Look for a “Salmon Hazard” warning sign required by a federal court order that says some pesticides being sold are harmful to federally protected salmon. You may have a hard time finding the warning signs. Stores up and down the west coast received them from the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) in July 2006, with instructions to post them next to any product containing one of seven common pesticides. But the EPA has failed to ensure all stores are 1) supplied with the signs, 2) know how to post them, and 3) re-post them with seasonal changes in product placement. The required warning resulted from a January 2003 federal court ruling that established streamside no-spray zones for 38 pesticides. The court also ordered the consumer warning signs to reduce pesticide runoff in urban areas, where storm water systems carry pesticides from lawns and gardens to streams and rivers miles away. Since the EPA isn’t making sure stores are posting the signs, concerned individuals can help do the watch-dogging. Check your local nursery, home improvement warehouse, or hardware store and see whether Salmon Hazard signs are posted at the designated pesticides. If the signs aren’t posted, talk to the store manager and inform him or her that the signs are required by federal law and that they’ll help guide customers toward products less likely to harm salmon. If the manager is receptive, provide him or her with information on the pesticides that require the warning and how to obtain the signs. Use the sample letters provided as a guide. Get the signs from www.watoxics.org (under Issues/Salmon protection lawsuit/How retailers can protect salmon). Download the signs here (PDF). One interesting development: Home Depot stores in Canada are phasing out toxic pesticides (See Newsbites, Sound Consumer June 2008). But until the day comes when we can walk through aisles of safe, effective alternatives at Home Depot and other stores in the United States, we can help others make better choices. These warning signs have incredible potential for educating homeowners about the need to switch to gardening methods and products that don’t poison salmon and threaten our children’s health. So what does the herbicide triclopyr BEE do to Salmon? Increases respiration rates; flared gills; disoriented swimming behavior in fish. Erika Schreder>  Homepage:: http://
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