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From an Article in The Atlantic In Oregon, Residents Struggle to Solve a Pesticide Mystery April 14, 2012. Jim Furnish, who managed the Siuslaw National Forest in Oregon in the 1990s and later became deputy chief of the Forest Service said:
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From an Article in The AtlanticIn Oregon, Residents Struggle to Solve a Pesticide MysteryApril 14, 2012 Jim Furnish, who managed the Siuslaw National Forest in Oregon in the 1990s and later became deputy chief of the Forest Service said: It was more costly, more labor intensive. But forestry in Oregon is profitable under many different scenarios. The Forest Service just saddled itself to a different horse and rode off into the future.
Cumulative Amount and Type of Pesticide Product Aerial Sprayed Liquid Chemicals Dry Chemicals 3,786 Total Gallons 2,704 Total Pounds
Cumulative Amount and Type of Pesticide Product Ground Sprayed Liquid Chemicals Dry Chemicals
Cumulative Amount and Type of Pesticide Product Ground Sprayed Liquid Chemical Dry Chemicals
Aerial Spray Seasonal Trends Liquid Chemicals Dry Chemicals
NOAA’s Oceans and Human Health Initiative “. . . found that salmon died when exposed to combinations of pesticides that were not deadly when tested in individual trials.” These findings have important implications for the recovery of many threatened and endangered salmon populations.
Oregon Department Of Fish and Wildlife Designated Fish Creek as Core Cold Water Habitat
Fish Creek Watershed Ownership in the Watershed (5,319 acres)
Fish Creek Watershed250 Acres of Aerial Sprayed in 200950 Acres of Ground Sprayed in 2009
Fish Creek Watershed 251 Acres of Aerial Sprayed in 2010187 Acres of Ground Sprayed in 2010
Fish Creek Watershed394 Acres Aerial Sprayed in 201140 Acres Ground Spray in 2011