Subject: Seagulls are dying in Florida-----
Date: Fri, 22 Dec 2000 08:51:41 -0500
From: Stephen Tvedten <steve@getipm.com>
Organization: Get Set Inc. (www.getipm.com)
To: Paul Helliker <phelliker@cdpr.ca.gov>
Director, State
of California, Department of Pesticide Regulation
cc: Carol Browner browner.carol@epa.gov
Dear Mr. Helliker, I thought you might like to read an
article from the Miami Herald, 20 Dec 2000 [edited] on the recent die off
seagulls in Florida.
Scientists are trying to figure out what killed more than
50 seagulls found on Volusia County beaches since Friday, and why another 60
sick birds have required treatment for apparent respiratory illness. [Volusia
County is on the central eastern coast of Florida, and includes Daytona
Beach.] The U.S. Fish and
Wildlife Service has agreed to perform necropsies, or animal autopsies, on the
seagulls at their Oregon laboratories to determine a cause of death, agent Joe
Oliveros said.
Experts surmise that the dead birds could have died after
they ate fish contaminated with salmonella, contracted a virus, or encountered
something toxic. The birds could
also have died from an exhausting migration.
About 20 of them have died since being brought in, said Dee Ann Snyder,
who is licensed to rehabilitate birds. Snyder
says it's common for some seagulls to die after migrating south from as far as
the Arctic, but the number of cases since Friday worries her.
She says she typically treats 100 to 125 seagulls a year, but she has
treated 58 since Friday.
Patricia Doyle, PhD., Investigator of Emerging Diseases,
who sent me the above article suggested I visit her website "Emerging
Diseases" and message board - http://goddess-of-fire.tripod.com/index-1.html
and http://disc.server.com/Indices/93896.html
Well Mr. Helliker,
I wonder what "registered" POISON "they" have been
spraying in Florida? When you
visit Ms. Doyle's website you wonder who you can "trust" in
"our" government. Cicero once said: "Nobody can give you wiser
advice than yourself." That
is why I constantly investigate, field test, research, evaluate, refine,
change, and study my (unregistered) safe and far more effective alternatives
to your "registered" POISONS. When
I look back at all of your "registered" POISONS that have been
subsequently banned or "voluntarily withdrawn" from the market and
consider all of the continuing CONTAMINATION, SICKNESS AND DEATH that they
have caused and note that even after BILLIONS OF TONS OF ACTIVE
"REGISTERED" POISON INGREDIENTS have been used and misused - you
still have not really controlled much less eradicated a single pest species -
I am shocked! I have safely and
effectively eradicated all pest problems inside and outside in over 350
schools without ever using any of your "registered" volatile
POISONS. When will it be
"legal" (in your opinion) to use safe and far more effective
(unregistered) alternatives to actually control pest problems in California?
Respectfully, Stephen
L. Tvedten
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