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From: boreas@bucsb.UUCP (Michael A. Justice)
Newsgroups: rec.birds,sci.environment
Subject: Re: pesticides & birds
Message-ID: <2368@bucsb.UUCP>
Date: 20 Feb 89 21:14:00 GMT
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Reply-To: boreas@bucsb.bu.edu (Michael A. Justice)
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In article <10422@drutx.ATT.COM> nap@drutx.ATT.COM (N. A. Parsons) writes:
>If you need advice on alternatives, you might try:
>      Natural Gardening Research Center
>      Hwy. 48 -- P.O. Box 149
>      Sunman, IN 47041
>      (812) 623-3800

Also try Rodale's Organic Gardening;  they're in Emmaus, PA (area code
215, I think).  (But aren't these more for small-scale gardening, rather
than entire metropolitan areas??)

Does anyone know how effective BT is, in comparison to Malathion and the
like??  What the relative costs are (in dollars, not environmentally)??
Problems with its use??  (From what little I've heard, the stuff is just
about ideal, environmentally speaking.)

Also, how does one go about convincing blockheaded suburbanites that 
dumping poison all over a town is not generally a good idea?

			-- Michael.
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