Dear Pesticide Activist,
Thank you for all your help writing letters and attending hearings opposing the Department of Agriculture’s proposed weakening of Wisconsin’s primary pesticide rule (Ag 29). At last count the score was more than 1,000 opposed to weakening and 20 in favor.
The Department of Agriculture will make its final decisions on Ag 29 December 11 at it’s monthly Board meeting. They will consider, among other things, the request to prohibit pesticides from sensitive areas, changes to the registry, eliminating roadside posting and changes to the landscape warning signs.
Urge the Department of Ag to Strengthen Pesticide Regulations by writing a letter to the editor before December 11.
Ask the Department of Agriculture to strengthen pesticide regulations and include any of the following specifics:
1) Eliminate pesticides from sensitive areas like schools, day care centers and playgrounds. Their proposal to investigate the possibility of voluntary minimization in some schools is not strong enough. Ask the Department to use its authority now to protect all of Wisconsin’s children and eliminate pesticides from sensitive areas.
2) Maintain the pesticide pre-notification registry’s "block concept." The Department of Ag has proposed to reduce the registry to just adjacent addresses, severely limiting families’ right to know. Urge the Department to protect our right to know and maintain the registry’s "block concept."
3) Maintain the roadside posting requirement. Eliminating roadside posting threatens those who work or recreate along public roads, including, for example, bicyclists, road maintenance crews and delivery personnel. To protect citizens health and right to know ask the Dept. to maintain roadside posting.
4) Improve landscape warning signs. The current signs are too small,
they’re printed on only one side, the symbol is not recognizable to children
(it looks more like "do not walk your dog here") and applicators are using
them as an opportunity to advertise, printing their logos nearly as big
as the warning. The warning signs need to be improved.
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Wisconsin State Journal
Letters to the Editor
PO Box 8058
Madison, WI 53708
The Capital Times
Voice of the People
PO Box 8060
Madison, WI 53708
Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
The Morning Mail
PO Box 371
Milwaukee, WI 53201-0371
Green Bay News-Chronicle
Letters to the Editor
133 S. Monroe St.
PO Box 2467
Green Bay, WI 54301
Green Bay Press Gazette
Letters to the Editor
435 E. Walnut
PO Box 19430
Green Bay, WI 54307-9430
Appleton Post Crescent
Attn: Bill Harke; Let to Editor
306 W. Washington St.
PO Box 59
Appleton, WI 54912
Eau Claire Leader Telegram
Attn: Voice of the People
701 S. Farwell
PO Box 570
Eau Claire, WI 54702
La Crosse Tribune
Attn: Dick Mial; Let to Editor
401 N. 3rd St.
La Crosse, WI 54601