Poisonous plants

[Lynne Glazer <lynne@glazer.org>]

Norco had the city ordinance, but when the state/feds finally 
finished joining up I-15 through the city, CalTrans planted 
*oleanders* against the homeowners' acreage that backed up to the 
east side of the the freeway between 5th and 6th Street!

Naturally a howl of outrage went up from the citizenry, and they were removed.

This was around 1993.

Lynne


At 8:46 PM -0800 11/1/99, GESA BRINKS wrote:
>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 <snip>


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