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Allow NO chemicals on Tawas Lake Rice

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David berry
8 years ago Featured

Natural vital plant and food source. Lake is an estuary of the river and provide filtration or run off and natural habitats. Homeowners should consider the ruining of the natural habitat.

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Samuel Roney
8 years ago

I'm sure you meant species and not spices

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Michael Bommarito
8 years ago

No chemicals!

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Michele Berry
8 years ago

People need to learn

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Larry VanWagoner
9 years ago Featured

There's very little research to show that aquatic herbicides are safe for all living things in waters where they are used. In addition to the numerous birds, animals, insects, and fish that live in Tawas Lake, it's also one of the few nesting areas in Michigan for the Black Tern. This bird's numbers have been falling dramatically in recent years. This bird is now on the Federal Endangered Species list. There are more effective methods of removing vegetation from the marsh that is called Tawas Lake than using environmentally unsafe chemicals.

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Norman Anschuetz
9 years ago

A Ferris State professor claims chemicals will harm the environment.

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michael spiridonow
9 years ago

definitely no chemicals!

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David L Chandler
9 years ago

Haven't we had enough of poisoning our environment? If people don't like so called "weeds" on Tawas Lake let them get off their butts and pull them out themselves. They might find these weeds to be a valuable part of the ecology for both wildlife and human beings.

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Anonymous
9 years ago Featured

No chemicals in Tawas lake/marsh one of the few places with wild rice in the lower Peninsula . Can't believe they are even considering doing this as Tawas lk. is spring fed which goes into Tawas river into Lk. Huron!

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Jake Kirinovic
9 years ago Featured

Our natural resources are northern Michigan's greatest asset, the allure of tawas is the natural and wild setting it exists in. Sportsmen are drawn to tawas lake for the fishing not swimming, do not try to turn one of our most beloved lakes into a synthetic swimming hole through the application of herbicides.

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jeri Kokowicz
9 years ago

I can't believe they are even considering this route. it's just making 1 problem into many problems if they use chemicals.

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Scott Herron
9 years ago Featured

This is one of the few native populations of wild rice in the Lower peninsula of Michigan that is healthy, diverse, and intact. The animals and humans and the lake itself depends on a large wild rice population. These chemicals will kill wild rice, I have seen it on my lakes that have sprayed for invasives.

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michael spiridonow
9 years ago

no chemicals to disrupt our ecosystem!

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Zackary Launius
9 years ago

NO CHEMICALS!!!

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Penny DeBoever Wojahn
9 years ago

No more crap in the water!!!

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Gary W Irwin
9 years ago

It is not better living through better chemistry. Leave it alone.

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Janette Smith
9 years ago

Please don't ruin Tawas Lake with chemicals!!!!!

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Robert Wilson
9 years ago Featured

Please use another avenue to remove the lake rice on Tawas lake. The chemical run off from farms & fields already contributes to the poisoning of the waters.no need to add more.

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Kevin Hennig
9 years ago

No chemicals on Tawas lake rice.

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David L Chandler
9 years ago

We can no longer afford to use chemicals against nature. These chemicals leach into the environment and into the plants and animals we eat. Many of the so called diseases we suffer from are caused by the build up of chemicals in our bodies. We must stop this now.