My road, Grand County Road 50, is about to be sprayed in its \u201crights of way\u201d to kill \u201cnoxious weeds.\u201d <\/p>\n
As a warning to locals and tourists, you, kids, infants, pregnant women, asthmatics, dogs, cats, pets, horses, birds, bees, fish and wildlife will be exposed to Grand County\u2019s spraying using herbicides. Once again, in their yearly war against plants they call \u201cnoxious weeds,\u201d including Scentless chamomile, Oxeye daisy, thistles, and yellow sweet clover, which is not \u201cnoxious,\u201d but is sprayed anyway.<\/p>\n
Grand County\u2019s Weed Control trucks should have large signs on them, clearly alerting the public that they are spraying \u201cPOISONS\u201d on public lands, and they should put written signs on the ground indicating when it\u2019s safe to be back in that sprayed area. They spray weed poisons near streams, near our wells, etc. <\/p>\n
If you read these herbicide labels and translate them into plain English, you will GASP (GrandCountians Against Spraying Poisons). <\/p>\n
You may have heard about lawsuits against the weed killer \u201cRoundup\u201d that causes cancer. But, Grand County\u2019s weed spraying foreman told me that Roundup herbicide is no more dangerous than the herbicides she uses on weeds, on edges of our roads. Do Grand County\u2019s herbicides also cause cancer?<\/p>\n
Please pull weeds and put \u201cDO NOT SPRAY\u201d signs on your property to prevent Grand County\u2019s spraying of poisonsous herbicides on or near your property. Every weed pulled means less poisonous herbicide spraying in our areas.<\/p>\n
Call Grand County Natural Resources at 970-887-0745 and tell them not to spray on or near your property. You should also ask them to use mowing, volunteers pulling up weeds, goats, grass seeds, etc., instead of spraying. <\/p>\n
\u2014 Carol Sidofsky, Fraser<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" My road, Grand County Road 50, is about to be sprayed in its \u201crights of way\u201d to kill \u201cnoxious weeds.\u201d As a warning to locals and tourists, you, kids, infants, pregnant women, asthmatics, dogs, cats, pets, horses, birds, bees, fish and wildlife will be exposed to Grand County\u2019s spraying using herbicides. Once again, in their […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[94,97],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-28992","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-community","7":"category-local-news"},"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-06-10 18:16:01","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"distributor_meta":false,"distributor_terms":false,"distributor_media":false,"distributor_original_site_name":"KIFT - The LIFT FM","distributor_original_site_url":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kift","push-errors":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kift\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28992","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kift\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kift\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kift\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kift\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=28992"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kift\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28992\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kift\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=28992"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kift\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=28992"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kift\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=28992"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}