prohibited round-up being used by Yukon Energy

Even in Canada round-up is being banned in many places

lets keep our Yukon looking like this

please read the post below here, very disturbing

roundup herbicides

This cannot be happening
It just doesn't make sense when people that studied environmentalism, are trying to tell me that herbicides are less dangerous to the environment then mowing.

But this is what Yukon Energy and government workers with Yukon environment are trying to tell me.

Please lets stop this madness

this is what Yukon Energy says:

 Yukon Energy has more than 1,000 kilometres of transmission lines, and we must keep the right-of-ways under the lines clear to ensure reliability of our system. Currently we mow the right-of-ways and manually remove the trees under our powerlines. However vegetation experts have reviewed our practice and suggest that using herbicides in addition to our current practices will provide benefits both from an economic and an environmental standpoint.

Using herbicides would mean that the right-of-ways would be disturbed less often by heavy equipment, because we wouldn’t have to manually remove vegetation so often. It could promote the growth of grasses and other vegetation desirable to animals and humans, since herbicides can be selectively applied to target certain plants or trees. It also reduces bird nest disturbances.

This summer, we will be testing some herbicides in the Whitehorse area to see if it makes sense for us to add their use to our vegetation management program.

The small plots, near the Long Lake Road and in the vicinity of the Takhini Hot Springs Road, will be clearly marked with signs before the work begins. See the maps below for their exact locations.

Herbicides are commonly used by utilities elsewhere in Canada and abroad. The ones we are testing have been recommended by environmental experts and have been approved as safe to use by Health Canada.

We will begin our test program on July 8th and run for two weeks. During this time, we ask that you not walk through the plots, and that you prevent your pets from walking through them. While it isn’t a hazard for you to walk in the area, it could affect the results of our testing.

Please contact us if you have any questions.

The herbicides to be tested are Garlon XRT #28945, Roundup Transorb Liquid Herbicide #28198, and Arsenal.

As for the debate about “rights of way” versus “right of ways”, the Merriam-Webster dictionary says both are acceptable.

And this is what the government says

Hi Jozien,

Here are the labels of the products that Yukon Energy’s contractor is going to be using. The applicator is required by both federal and territorial law to follow the instructions of the label. I’ve also attached a copy of the permit for the applicator. The permit outlines some restrictions that they must follow. I hope this information is helpful.

Thanks

Jennifer

Jennifer Dagg

Environmental Protection Analyst

Environment Yukon

P: 867-667-5610

Yukon government welcomes your input on proposed changes to the permitting regime under the Environment Act

http://www.env.gov.yk.ca/environment-you/PermitRegimeReview.php

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on the edge

sheeptrail

I have choices, i realize this moment.

My life often so simple, seems too complicated.

No therapist nor therapy has yet freed from

the reoccurring feeling, that life is too difficult for me.

Oh yes what epiphany too realize here now 

that it is so difficult because i have choices

that's very bittersweet

that's irony

I know that maybe many people, do live on the edge.

I feel now that it is so easy to let oneself slip,

to think it is all going to be okay,

somehow, miraculously.

Wistful think is what that's called.

In one therapy i learned; realistic thinking.

Well the reality is, i am going down the hole.....

Please bear with me

pewit or whats

Yes Rob it is a pewit and we here call it ..oops.. Western-wood Pewee
whatever i get so excited and today i learned to actually recognize a Greater Scaup from a lesser Scaup
the following picture , today are Greater Scaups

i have better pictures somewhere,

 but look at the female beak, you might have to click on the image to enlarge it

she has a distinct white blob at her bill, suddenly i also see that her bill is larger than that of the Lesser Scaup

well anyway, in my moose skull lake here there are also Lesser Scaup, which....

Mary taught me the trick. :)

Pee-wees

just a quick note,
I am very happy to announce the after screaming in my yard for a while now,  a pair of pee-wees settled down this morning in the same nest as they have used for years.

Getting obsessed

with the names of the wonders of life.
Today among many thing we  held an butterfly that looks like a Oeneis uhleri, Uhler's Arctic.

And also too obsessed with trying to see the inside of it's wings.

Why i wonder?

The butterfly too strong for us anyway, it did not let us pry open it's wings.

Now that says something doesn't it?

ha! and Alexander

yesterday he got his diploma in Paramedics

and my brother Marinus and sister-in-law Sabina were there

thank you!