Lane County Area Spray Schedule 9-4-14

Lane County Commissioners are meeting at 9 am Tuesday, Sept. 9, to consider the use of herbicides along county roads. Chemical agriculture lobbying groups want the county to use toxic sprays. Sign up at Harris Hall at 8:45 am to voice your concerns.

• Giustina Land & Timber, 345-2301, plans to hire Western Helicopter Services, Inc., 503-538-9469, to aerially spray 43 acres near Crow Creek with aminopyralid, glyphosate, imazapyr, metsulfuron methyl and/or sulfometuron methyl. See ODF notification 2014-781-00875, call Brian Peterson at 935-2283 with questions.

• Rosboro LLC, 746-8411, plans to hire Wilbur-Ellis, 503-538-9469 or Western Helicopter Service, 503-538-9469, plans to aerially spray 81 acres near Quartz Creek with glyphosate, imazapyr, metsulfuron methyl and/or sulfometuron methyl. See ODF notice 2014-771-00509, call Nikolai Hall at 726-3588 with questions. 

• Giustina Land & Timber, 345-2301, plans to hire A & H Forestry, (503) 476-1255, to spray its roadsides near Maple Creek and Mohawk River tributaries with 2,4-D, clopyralid, glyphosate, triclopyr amine and/or triclopyr ester. See ODF notifications 2014-771-00723 and 2014-771-00726, call Nikolai Hall at 726-3588 with questions. 

• Seneca Jones Timber Company, 689-1011, plans to hire Oregon Forest Management Services, 520-5941, to spray herbicides near tributaries of Pheasant, Conger, Barlow and Camas Swale creeks. See ODF notice 2014-781-00690, call Brain Peterson or Daniel Menk at 935-2283 with questions. 

• Transition Management, Inc., 521-5897, plans to spray herbicides on 37 acres near tributaries of Coyote and Preacher creeks. See ODF notice 2014-781-00883, call Brian Peterson at 935-2283 with questions.