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Tell TxDOT: Bee Mindful of Texas’ Pollinators- Stop the Spray!

Tell TxDOT: Bee Mindful of Texas’ Pollinators- Stop the Spray!

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Started by Brin Wisdom 8 years ago
I’m Brin, a beekeeper and farmer in the piney woods of East Texas. In August 2018, an area where my bee hives forage was affected when the Texas Department of Transportation sprayed a toxic combo of RoundUp and Outrider herbicides off a State highway. This petition has two purposes:

1. To put our elected state officials and the Department of Transportation on notice that their rampant application of toxic herbicides and related chemicals is detrimental to Texas’ bees/pollinators, soil, and farms.

2. To unite concerned Texans in a bid to compel Austin to change the way they maintain highways, right-of-ways, and rural roads/routes.

In signing this petition, you are letting the State of Texas know that its beekeepers and farmers are impacted by their current weed control system, and that Texas land owners, homesteaders, and farmers object to the lack of notification and/or remedy to their spraying practices.

Join with me as we tell Texas: be mindful of our bees and STOP THE SPRAY.

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Sophie Cavendish
8 years ago Featured

Bees are vital to our ecosystem and environment and there has got to be an alternative to this! It's not worth loosing these wonderful insects simply because TXDOT wants to spray pesticides.

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Vera Hines
8 years ago Featured

TxDOT must find weed control methods that do not sacrifice bees in the process or we will become the collateral damage.

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Kamrin Vega
8 years ago Featured

I have been following the Bee population affected by spraying and this is a very important cause. Brin Is highly educated on this matter and I back her on bringing this forward to protect the bees and the greater good for farmers and the health of Texas as a whole. The business of bee keeping needs to be protected as well as the well being of farmers and all Texans.

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Fabienne Gessleman
8 years ago

Bees are so important to botany, biology, and life on Earth. Please help preserve us all

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CATHY SMITH
8 years ago

Seriously. Just stop it.

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Ruth Sanchez
8 years ago

Stop the spray

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Jewel Benson
8 years ago

If the bees go,they're taking us with them!

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Natalie J Shotwell
8 years ago

To Whom It May Concern: We now know that one of the main ingredients in Roundup is a carcenagenic per the man who won over 200 million in a lawsuit. Yes we have genetically ingineared food (GMO’s) but do they cause cancer as well? Only time will tell. Killing our bees will indefinitely affect us on a scale that can not be undone. Only a matter of time before it becomes detrimental to the human race should we loose our bee populations! Think of your children and their children, your grandchildren and how they will be affected if this detriment continues. So much more that can be stated. I pray many wake up to this downward spiral and protect our Bee’s! Sincerely, Natalie Shotwell

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