Re: Re:another sad news Story

["GESA BRINKS" <gesaeqfx@pe.net>]

I had the pleasure of meeting Lauren Netherly in Sept. of this year.  I told
her to get her petitions together and I would pass them out at the local
horse clubs that I belong to.  I also have spoken to forestry workers in So
Ca.  The number of people that have died from Oleander poisioning is
amazing.  No one talks about it.  She personally new of 2 children that died
of oleander from roasting hot dogs on the oleander stem in Cuyamaca state
park.  They are trying to remove all of the oleander from all of the parks .
Just one leaf landing into a pets water bowl can kill the pet.  How about a
few leaves landing in your horses water barrel??    Scarry huh? We had a
neighbor whose horse died of oleander poisoning when some leaves blew into
his corral and he picked them up off the ground as he ate his hay.  This is
a horrible plant and should be irradicated.  It is actually beginning to
grow wild in So Ca.   Bring on the petition.
                        gesa n clovis-----Original Message-----
From: superpat <superpat@gateway.net>
To: ridecamp <ridecamp@endurance.net>
Cc: ridecamp@endurance.net <ridecamp@endurance.net>
Date: Monday, November 01, 1999 11:40 AM
Subject: RC: Re:another sad news Story


>Here's an article that is a bit long but I've wondered for years how come
>California is so backward as to plant highly poisonous plants as meridians
>along highways fronting pastures and at rest areas. There have been cases
>reported of children dying from eating hotdogs which had been roasted using
>oleander stalks as roasting sticks. I have heard countless stories of horse
>deaths from eating only a few leaves after they were blown into the field
>after the plants had been trimmed. If you don't want to read the whole
>thing, skip to the last few lines before deleting. Should make you as mad
as
>it made me (and that's plenty). Found on Horsenet news
>http://www.horsenet.com/
>Here goes:
>Oleander Ban Sought
>
>California -- The Riverside Press Enterprise carried a story on February
14,
>1999 by Steve Moore about a woman's campaign to ban the horse-deadly plant
>Oleander:
>Lauren Nethery gets sick to her stomach every time she sees the oleander
>growing just beyond her Cherry Valley corral. Its poisonous leaves, she
>says, proved lethal to her prized show horse, Coatie.
>
>But on the other side of the railing, the 5 foot tall oleander evokes sweet
>memories for Ruth Inez Towell. Her late husband, Rupert, planted the bush
>and it rekindles memories of a marriage that lasted almost 50 years, her
>daughter says.
>
>Nethery says she's sympathetic. But she is nonetheless on a crusade to
>outlaw the poisonous plants in much of western Riverside County.
>
>The president of the Palm Springs Arabian Horse Association, Nethery is
>leading a petition drive and lobbying county supervisors for an anti
>oleander measure. Supervisorial aides say their bosses are listening, but
>have made no commitments.
>
>Meanwhile, Nethery has collected about 125 signatures on a petition to help
>persuade county officials to enact a new anti-oleander ordinance.
>
>"Nobody should have to go through what I did, especially if it can be
>prevented," she said.
>
>The affected area would stretch from Temecula to Riverside and from Hemet
>through the San Gorgonio Pass. Property owners would be required to yank
out
>the bushes if livestock was threatened.
>
>Nethery also is working with experts to come up with a short list of other
>poisonous plants for her proposed ordinance.
>
>It wouldn't be the first anti oleander ordinance in the county. Norco, a
>town reputed to have more horses than people, outlawed oleanders about 25
>years ago.
>
>Nobody doubts the toxicity of the plants. Many experts say the only way to
>keep animals safe is to keep them away from the plants. Livestock and even
>endangered bighorn sheep have perished after eating only a few leaves. Two
>horses died of oleander poisoning last December in Southern California.
>Coatie was one of them.
>
>Nethery still recalls watching helplessly as her brown and white spotted
>pinto suffered a slow, agonizing death. It took three days before the show
>horse succumbed on Dec. 8. Test results showed the 6 year old horse died of
>a heart attack from oleander poisoning.
>
>"Coatie wasn't just a horse," she said. "Coatie was a member of my family."
>
>Yet California's roadsides and medians have been filled with oleanders
since
>the 1930s. They make great hedges, require little water and are very hardy.
>
>And until Nethery came along, there were very few threats to oleanders.
>
>Only an incurable, fatal disease known as oleander leaf scorch seems a
>threat to the plant. The disease is caused by a thumbnail sized leafhopper,
>the glassy winged sharpshooter. The bug sucks the juice out of oleanders,
>then spreads bacteria that eventually clog up water carrying tissues.
>Slowly, the bush dies.
>
>Riverside and Orange counties have been particularly hard hit.
>
>The oleander leaf scorch was first noticed in the Palm Springs area in 1994
>and has since destroyed plantings along freeways, in shopping centers and
at
>homes. It recently killed half the oleander in a 11/2 mile hedge in a Palm
>Springs neighborhood. Bontanists say they have no way to control the
>disease.
>
>The red and white blossomed oleander is native to the warm parts of Asia
and
>to the Mediterranean region. As an ornamental flowering shrub, oleanders
can
>top 15 feet.
>
>But with poison flowing through the plant, it has earned a sinister
>reputation.
>
>About five to 10 medium sized leaves are enough to kill a full grown horse,
>according to Dr. Frank Galey, a veterinary toxicologist at the University
of
>California, Davis, School of Veterinary Medicine. About once a week, Galey
>gets a call about oleanders poisoning livestock. Dried leaves that fall to
>the ground or blow into a feed area are the biggest culprit, he said.
>
>Jim DeForge, executive director of the Bighorn Institute in Palm Desert,
>said oleander poisoning has wiped out five endangered Peninsular bighorn
>sheep over the last six years. Sheep often venture down from rocky
hillsides
>in the Coachella Valley to nibble on backyard gardens.
>
>"Oleanders are a serious threat," DeForge said. "They are a silent killer
>and people don't realize the effect on wildlife."
>
>Some city officials do. Norco's ordinance reads, in part: "No person,
>corporation, or public agency shall plant or cultivate the oleander plant
at
>any place in the city for any purpose whatsoever."
>
>Each month, Norco asks one or two people to remove their oleanders and they
>do, said James Daniels, director of community development. The ordinance,
>updated in 1997, is enforced on a complaint only basis.
>
>"Most people are reasonable when we talk to them," he added.
>
>But some balk at pulling up their oleanders.When Morris Sternberg bought
his
>property, a couple of rows of oleanders came with it. Last year, he fought
a
>ticket ordering him to remove the bushes.
>
>A judge recently found Norco's ordinance unconstitutional, tossing out the
>citation. But the ruling only applied in Sternberg's case and the law
>remains on the books.
>
>And Rancho Mirage rushed to protect bighorns in 1996 after two sheep died
of
>oleander poisoning.
>
>Oleanders were banned from new developments south of Highway 111 near the
>Santa Rosa Mountains, an area frequented by the sheep. The edict by the
>planning department led to a plea in the city newsletter.
>
>Rancho Mirage residents living on the mountain side of Highway 111 were
>asked not to plant any more oleanders and to remove existing hedges.
>
>Meanwhile, a bitter battle rages over a lone oleander planted near a fence
>in Cherry Valley. For now, Nethery wants the bush transplanted somewhere
>else on her neighbor's property to protect her remaining horses.
>
>"We don't want to kill it," Nethery said. "I'm sympathetic. I understand
>that her late husband planted it."
>
>Patricia Kramer says her 77 year old mother feels horrible that Nethery's
>horse died, but said she must draw the line somewhere. While her mother is
>willing to trim the oleander, she fears uprooting the plant could cause it
>to die, Kramer said.
>
>"My mother is sorry their horse passed away," Kramer said. "She cares
deeply
>about animals. She would never deliberately harm an animal."
>Pat responds:
>So kill the #%* plant. For God's sake, don't trim it and let the leaves
blow
>into the field. What an idiot!!!!!!!
>
>
>
>
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