RE: The Right to Burn vs the Right to Breathe

["Stephen Cooke" <scooke@uidaho.edu>]

My impression is that wheat straw burning is justified on the basis of disease and pest control. Blue grass burning is justified based on increased yield.

 

Steve

 

-----Original Message-----
From: Keith and Margaret Howe [mailto:kmhowe@moscow.com]
Sent: Tuesday, September 21, 1999 12:23 PM
To: Vision2020
Subject: Re: The Right to Burn vs the Right to Breathe

 

Perhaps someone can elighten me as to what field burning can accomplish that decent agricultural management cannot? (What about crop rotation or planned usage? What, actually, are farmers burning that cannot be used otherwise?) Just curious, since I really don't know what makes burning an important aspect of annual farming...

 

 - Keith Howe

----- Original Message -----

From: Wayne H Beebe

To: Vision 2020

Sent: Tuesday, September 21, 1999 12:12 PM

Subject: The Right to Burn vs the Right to Breathe

 

Another smokey day on the palouse.  Looks like the smoke is coming from the East.  Regardless.  I note that the President of the Washington Wheat growers association says it is the right of the farmers to burn, they have been doing it for generations.  What about the Public's right to breathe clean air?  My lungs are hurting today.  Isn't there a better way?