Mounted search and rescue

[Karen Nesbitt <spanishequines@yahoo.com>]

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                I can tell a lot of you are not farmers!  There is a 
countless number of weeds that are carried by the wind as well as animals.  
Oh and about that AISAN RUST (that's a plant virus in case you did not know 
...well folks, that WAS ONE THAT blew in to the country via storms.
   
  To me, it is ridiculous that if you are going to have hroses and horse 
trails, then, do not impose silly regulations that contradict the two.  And 
if the trail says horses, perhaps those with horse-and manure a-phobia ought 
to take a different route!  Nature is as nature does!  After all, whio scoops 
poop after the millions of deer in this country....?
   
  Drive anywhere in the country, talk to most farmers who know something 
about farming...look at their fields, do you think those fields got pristine 
by not allowing the wind to blow?  Try clean seed, clean fields and 
chemicals....that wil get them clean..or hand pulling the weeds...
   
  Now, if you ask me, to take care of the weed problem, you need to get after 
the set aside grounds that are not mowed or burned before the weeds head out 
to produce more seed.  And what is the point if you mow after the plants head 
out?
   
  As for horses eating weeds, there are numerous weeds out there that are 
poisonous to large animals.
   
  Check out these websites:
   
  FOURTEEN WAYS TO AVOID PLANT POISONING
 http://www.pioneerthinking.com/toxic.html 
   
  TOXIC PLANTS - A BIBLIOGRAPHY BY JEAN BURETON
 http://ead.univ-angers.fr/%7Epharma/bruneton/ 
  
   
  PICTURE DIRECTORY OF PLANTS BY THEIR ALPHABETICAL LISTING
 http://vet.purdue.edu/depts/addl/toxic/by_pic.htm 
   
  CULTIVATED OATS - (a do not "not read" if you grain you grain your 
livestock...)
 http://vet.purdue.edu/depts/addl/toxic/plant13.htm 
   
  DO YOU HAVE POISONOUS WEEDS IN YOUR PASTURES OR FORAGES?
  BY JERRY DOLL -
 http://ipcm.wisc.edu/uw_weeds/extension/articles/poisonpasture.htm  
   
  THREATENED AND ENDANGERES PRAIRIE PLANTS - 
 http://www.chias.org/www/edu/mitc/prate.html 
   
  Personally folks, I would be more worried and real concerned about what 
goes into some of the compost farms than I would be about the horses pooping 
on a trail or roadway.  I would be real concerned about heavy metal poisoning 
and things of that nature. That people dump in their dumpsters that do not 
get sorted properly to go either to a landfill or compost dump.l
   
  And if you get your hay out of road ditches, well, take a gander and search 
and read about at MIL SLAG and its detriments...the runoff from the roadways 
into the ditches carry one heck of an environmental impact....
  .
 http://www.delawareriverkeeper.org/factsheets/grows.html 
   
  One last site, let me throw this in for heavy metals....
 
http://www.leadinspector.com/?OVRAW=LEAD%20POISIONING&OVKEY=lead%20poisoning&OVMTC=standard
   
  

   
  AND IF YOU WORRY ABOUT WHAT TRACKS ON YOUR SHOES BESIDES SEED...GO SEARCH  
PARVOVIRUS.....THAT'S ONE YOU DOG OWNERS NEED TO BE CONCERNED ABOUT.  That 
virus came into the US via someones shoes that traveled by boat.
   
  And if you think the gypsy moth just flew in, you better wash your car 
before you enter some of the forests in Canada....or you will not be going in 
there at all.
  Well, I hope the links work!  
   
  Karen Nesbitt
  MSAR - ILLINOIS UNAFILIATED
   
  (Sorry to be so long and windy, but you all just opened a big can of worms 
when it comes to horses and manure and stuff on the trail....and so what does 
all this have to do with MSAR - well, you figure it out before you call 911!)
  










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