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Letter to the Editor<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

Dear Editor<\/p>\n

It has come to my attention that Ballarat council’s tree maintenance department is playing a dangerous game spraying the entire root line of trees with now questionable poisons.<\/p>\n

The same poisons that are banned in France and a council worker in California has been awarded the budget of Ballarat council many times over for being exposed to these chemicals.<\/p>\n

Maybe that is a precedent Ballarat council cannot fight! Speaking to one of their own arborists, after we got into a conversation about the dead zone it created for insects that have a symbiotic relationship with the tree (notwithstanding insect numbers worldwide are down 70 per cent) he said the best method would be mulch instead of spraying.<\/p>\n

Flowering eucalyptuses create their own mulch and drop their gumnuts for weed control.<\/p>\n

Now that the entire tree population has been sprayed there is only one way forward and that is to add mulch yearly when the poison has subsided and after a few years the surrounds will begin to become a natural environment, again.<\/p>\n

Trevor McKenna<\/p>\n

Newington<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Letter to the Editor Dear Editor It has come to my attention that Ballarat council’s tree maintenance department is playing a dangerous game spraying the entire root line of trees with now questionable poisons. The same poisons that are banned in France and a council worker in California has been awarded the budget of Ballarat […]<\/p>\n

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