Pesticides and Herbicides contribute to disease and are extremely toxic to people, plants and animals

Toxic chemicals used for aerial spraying after clear-cut logging can drift for miles and end up in streams, near homes, families, children, livestock, crops and many unintended victims

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  • Personal Stories of local residents:
    • A former lead Chief Petitioner for our aerial spray initiative died of cancer attributed to aerial pesticide spray exposure (RIP Lynn Bowers!)
    • Our current lead Chief Petitioner, Michelle Holman, who has lived in Deadwood, Oregon, near the coast for the past 50 years, has had 10 miscarriages as a result of chemical exposure and their husband currently suffers from Parkinson’s disease 
    • Link to Triangle Lake Radio show about the dangers of aerial spray (about another Chief Petitioner)
    • http://www.loe.org/shows/segments.html?programID=12-P13-00018&segmentID=3
    • Loren Wand, a sustainable farmer, landscape consultant and project manager, lost their wife after exposure from aerial pesticide spraying. She began having respiratory problems immediately, which evolved into lung cancer, spreading to her bones, brain and lymph system. After 11 months of suffering, she died at age of 44, leaving behind three children and a husband. 
    • Video from Lincoln County-Loren Wand My experience with Pesticides, It affected our whole family
    • Nursing mothers exposed to chemical drifts have tested positive for these chemicals in their breast milk 
    • Video from Lincoln County Doctor who treated birth defects from Spray!Renee, Stringham M.D. care of activist and the birth defects in Lincoln County
    • Who is our opposition? How the chemical industry secretly backed the opposition to Lincoln County’s community rights 2017 measure to ban aerial spraying. The Lincoln County Community rights still won by 69 votes. https://theintercept.com/2018/09/15/oregon-pesticides-aerial-spray-ban/
    • PBS news special about Triangle Lake Oregon Forests in Oregon at Risk from Timber Industry and Chemicals

Farmers have suffered damages to their crops and livestock dying 

• Hunters find tumors and defects in game
• Animals such as pets, livestock, and wild animals, have been sickened, found with tumors, birth defects, and can ultimately die