permaculture

[loren luyendyk <loren@sborganics.com>]

As the last paragraph implied, Imprellis is persistent- it does not break 
down through composting or even in the rumen of animals.  So, manures and 
compost may contain higher concentrations of the chemical.  It can last for 
years in soils that have had it applied.

It looks like we haven't learned yet...
Loren Luyendyk
Permaculture Design & Education
(805) 452-8249
www.sborganics.com
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> From: lfljvenaura@gmail.com
> Date: Thu, 22 Sep 2011 15:11:43 -0400
> To: permaculture@lists.ibiblio.org
> Subject: [permaculture] DuPont's Imprelis Herbicide Goes Rogue | Common     
>   Dreams
> 
> DuPont's Imprelis Herbicide Goes Rogue | Common Dreams
> http://www.commondreams.org/view/2011/09/17-2
> 
> "Published on Saturday, September 17, 2011 by OtherWords
> DuPont's Herbicide Goes Rogue
> The company's landscaping weed-killer turned out to be a tree-killer.
> by Jim Hightower
> 
> In the corporate world's tortured language, workers are no longer
> fired. They just experience an "employment adjustment." But the most
> twisted euphemism I've heard in a long time comes from DuPont: "We are
> investigating the reports of these unfavorable tree symptoms," the
> pesticide maker recently stated.
> 
> How unfavorable? Finito, flat-lined, the tree is dead. Not just one
> tree, but hundreds of thousands all across the country are suffering
> the final "symptom."
> 
> The culprit turns out to be Imprelis, a DuPont weed-killer widely
> applied to lawns, golf courses, and — ironically — cemeteries.
> 
> Rather than just poisoning dandelions and other weeds, the herbicide
> also seems to be causing spruces, pines, willows, poplars, and other
> unintended victims to croak.
> 
> "It's been devastating," says a Michigan landscaper who applied
> Imprelis to about a thousand properties this spring and has already
> had more than a third of them suffer outbreaks of tree deaths. "It
> looks like someone took a flamethrower to them," he says.
> 
> At first, DuPont tried to dodge responsibility, claiming that
> landscape workers might be applying the herbicide improperly. The
> corporation even urged customers to be patient and leave the tree
> corpses on their lawns to see if they'd come back to life in a few
> years.
> 
> However, faith-based landscaping was a hard sell. Disgruntled
> homeowners began filing lawsuits. Then DuPont had its own "aha!"
> moment when trees on the grounds of the DuPont Country Club also
> developed the "unfavorable symptoms" of Imprelis poisoning.
> 
> So, with DuPont's cooperation, the EPA has finally banned sales of the
> tree-killing herbicide. But because of inadequate testing and a rush
> to profit, the poison will remain in the soil — and our water— for
> many moons. Trees will continue to die. Will we never learn?"
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