Ralph Bloomers, from the Craig Law Center, will explain the MOU and legislation supported by 13 environmental groups and 13 industrial timber operators. It would require logging buffers on streams in the Siskiyou watersheds to be as large as our more northern watersheds. It would require larger buffers for helicopters that spray pesticides from the air. Homes and schools now get only a 60' buffer (Washington state gives 200'). The new legislation would help protect school children and families with a 300' buffer from aerial-sprayed herbicides next to homes and schools.

For more information about Ralph's organization, see: https://crag.org/

For more information about aerial spraying in Oregon, see: https://www.beyondtoxics.org/wp-content/uploads/2013/12/FINAL_Report_OregonIndustrialForest_and_HerbicideUse_12-17-13.pdf

And here: https://oregonwild.org/support-regulation-aerial-herbicide-spraying

Pictures of aerial spraying that I took around me are here: https://www.flickr.com/gp/umpquawild/0V4cBv

Ending song is by Alice DiMicele, "Defend The Earth", from her "Searching" album. Alice will play us this music in Roseburg on March 22.