Just a look out - Pesticide spray around Thunder Bay HWY 527

[Birds_Eye]

Hey just a watch out!

My moose hunting group just got back from Thunder Bay around Hwy 527 and 811.
Pesticide was sprayed in this area. We were very disappointed as this was a new area we all had decided to explore.
Signs are posted a long the areas sprayed.
From what I can determine, we explored about 200 km from 527 and 811 and noticed these signs in a lot of main and side cut logged area and roads.

Good luck everyone!

[Birds_Eye]

http://fishingboard.thunderbayfishin...howtopic=15737

Just found this link.

[jim]

Spraying clearcut logging areas is nothing new. This has been done for years, to clear out garbage growth and allow new seedlings to take hold. This is what I was told by a logger, north of Long Lac.

[Minshall]

It's just glyphosate. Remove weed competition for new seedlings of trees to grow

[Gun Nut]

It's just glyphosate. Remove weed competition for new seedlings of trees to grow

Many regulatory and scholarly reviews have evaluated the relative toxicity of glyphosate as an herbicide. The German Federal Institute for Risk Assessment published a toxicology review in 2013, which found that "the available data is contradictory and far from being convincing" with regard to correlations between exposure to glyphosate formulations and risk of various cancers, including non-Hodgkin lymphoma (NHL).^[9] A meta-analysis published in 2014 identified an increased risk of NHL in workers exposed to glyphosate formulations.^[10] In March 2015 the World Health Organization's International Agency for Research on Cancer published a summary of its forthcoming monograph on glyphosate, and classified it as "probably carcinogenic in humans" (category 2A) based on epidemiological studies, animal studies, andin vitro studies.<sup>[5][11][12]


Sounds like charming stuff. What can I say my graduate degree was in biology, Rachel Carson 's " The Silent Spring," was on the book list of one of my courses. I can't remember the poets name but these lines comes to mind, " The tree that never had to fight for sun and sky and air and light, Never became a forest king but live and died a pitiful thing." God knows how much of this stuff accumulates in the tissues of animals that feed off the vegetation sprayed with it. However I suspect there is another study somewhere that says that it break down readily into non-harm chemical compounds.

You don't stop hunting because you grow old. You grow old because you stop hunting.
-Gun Nut</sup>

[gowbushkon]

This stuff kills more than weeds, it kills everything but the jackpine.Leaves nothing that the animals want to eat, therefore animals move on to other areas. Takes a couple of years before anything comes back to the area.

[Gilroy]

Just the opposite in the big smoke,we cant get grub worm killer anymore or decent weed killers unless you take a trip to Buffalo.
Anytime you want weeds come on down we got plenty.

[greatwhite]

False.

This stuff kills more than weeds, it kills everything but the jackpine.Leaves nothing that the animals want to eat, therefore animals move on to other areas. Takes a couple of years before anything comes back to the area.

[Gun Nut]

False.

Really! I suppose there is no likelihood that it gets into the ground water and gets spread further afield?
How come environmental groups are not raising hell about? Should the hunting community be concerned about its use?

You don't stop hunting because you grow old. You grow old because you stop hunting.
- Gun Nut

[greatwhite]

For starters glyphosphate becomes inert upon contact with soil. Read about it first before making statements.

Really! I suppose there is no likelihood that it gets into the ground water and gets spread further afield?
How come environmental groups are not raising hell about? Should the hunting community be concerned about its use?

You don't stop hunting because you grow old. You grow old because you stop hunting.
- Gun Nut