Comments on: Use of Herbicides on Sedona Red Rock Scenic Byway

By: Marta David

Marta David — Sun, 01 Jul 2012 19:20:36 +0000

I find it pathetic and totally irresponsible to use any herbisides in the Sedona or VOC areas. Not only locals but visitors and there very small children are exposed to these toxic substances. Any aware person knows that small children will often reach down and place rocks in there mouth. Does anything more need said, or perhaps we should mention that the locals and visitors alike take there drinking water from under where these herbicide leach into, ending up in compromising human health. The so called weeds and plants that are exterminated by these poisons are the very plants that visitors come hundreds of miles to admire and most locals I would guess also admire the Red Rocks and there foliage; why destroy it.

By: Bill Kusner

Bill Kusner — Tue, 30 Nov 2010 05:52:14 +0000

Dear Sedona Eye – Attached is a response to the Letter from Paul Gazda. His first letter was published in the RRN on November 10, and our response was published in the RRN on November 24. Your letter from him is identical to the letter he wrote to the RRN. Please “publish” our response in the Sedona Eye to set the record straight.

Bill Kusner
Chair’ All-American Road Committee

By: Steve Nelson

Steve Nelson — Thu, 25 Nov 2010 23:51:39 +0000

I feel the commentary by Bill Kusner is clear and to the point. I personally as well as the VOCA Board of Directors fully support the position expressed by the All-American Road Committee.

By: Warren

Warren — Thu, 25 Nov 2010 03:04:15 +0000

I would not be using the City of Sedona’s “failure” to get results with “alternative herbicides” as an example of anything except another City of Sedona failure.

I use “alternative herbicides” around the house and get results as good as Round-Up.

As for cost, it depends where you buy them but not too much more than Round-Up. Again, given the way the City wastes money and its general incompetency, it would not surprise me if they could not get a weed killer purchase right.

Additionally, this article is typical establishment defensiveness. The author needs to drop the defensiveness, reread Paul Gazda’s article and learn from it. The weed control on 179 was botched, plain and simple.

Attempting to belittle and marginalize Paul for not being a “member of the NAU faculty” and accusing him of having “no formal education qualifying him to render an authoritative opinion with regard to the use “traditional” EPA-approved or “alternative” herbicides on public or private weed control” is another totally establishment-style discrediting technique. Like only PhDs and “:recognized experts” and the politically-motivated EPA matter; you ordinary citizens don’t.

BTW, for the record, I do not know Paul personally nor do I consider myself an environmentalist. But I do know BS when I read it.