[MissoulaGov] upcoming MRL referrals

[Shaun]

I'm not sure how it works, but that's what one farm does down near Park City (MT).  I suppose they'd have to stop spraying so the milk products would be edible, of course.  And if you have to pay for poison or pay a goatherd a wage, I'd rather put the money into the local economy, hiring people to keep the goats than hiring a petro-chemical pollution-puking plant to spray us all with the nasty chemicals you mention.
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  From: Carolyn Walker 
  To: Shaun 
  Cc: Ethel MacDonald ; Bob Jaffe ; maximillian smith ; missoulagov at cmslists.com 
  Sent: Sunday, November 22, 2009 6:12 PM
  Subject: Re: [MissoulaGov] upcoming MRL referrals


  Who are you going to hire to shoo the goats off the tracks?  Wouldn't the milk and cheese have nasty chemicals?  Not there yet.

  On Nov 22, 2009, at 2:05 PM, Shaun wrote:


    What about hiring goats (and goatherds) to eat the weeds and produce milk and cheese from the valley?  Just a thought.  
    Shaun Gant
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      From: Ethel MacDonald 
      To: Bob Jaffe 
      Cc: missoulagov at cmslists.com 
      Sent: Friday, November 20, 2009 9:09 AM
      Subject: Re: [MissoulaGov] upcoming MRL referrals


      Thanks, Bob, for calling attention to the MRL's use of herbicide.  What creative ideas can we come up with to end the practice?  
        The other one comes out of a referral I made regarding herbicide spray along the rail lines in the city. One day this last summer I was on my way to work and as I crossed the Bitterroot Spur at first street I saw a big truck coming down the rail line spraying the weeds from a long boom. It was putting out a huge cloud of spray that completely covered the adjacent commuter trail. It was windy and the poison filled the air. Once the truck went by there was no way for any unsuspecting person walking their dogs to know the ground was saturated with herbicide. I assume there are few if any rules governing the rail line’s use of herbicides but I’m hoping we can come to some agreement that at least lets us post a notice when they are doing it.  

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