A message from SaveYourAsh to the Michigan Department of Agriculture
Updated April 2, 2005

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You should not call the ash tree a host plant nuisance. According to the law it is not..

Don't try to use a law that was written for the control of dangerous insects in the Agricultural Industry to control insects on our private property.

There are other laws in the State of Michigan which give the MDA the power to go onto private property to kill dangerous insects. Use them and follow the rules.

If you really are going to do an eradication you should give public notice of the section of the state proposed for eradication.

If you are going to do an eradication you should do an eradication, not this suppression action , 25 acres at a time.

If you are going to do a repression and control you should call it that and follow the rules for repression and control.

You should be treating ash trees instead of destroying them.

You should be paying people for the healthy trees which you destroy, so they could afford to replace them.

We do not live under a mix and match legal system in which the government is allowed to use the powers that the people gave it in one law and apply them to your actions which are spelled out in another. Don't trample on the rights of individual property owners with programs 'dividing and conquering' the public who don't want their healthy ash trees destroyed. Do not attempt to take away the rights of the people of the State of Michigan which are protected for them by the State Legislature. It is time for you to stop cutting down healthy ash trees, start treating them and "Save Our Ash."

TO OUR READERS

If you would like to see ways that you send your own message to the Michigan government click here. If anyone would care to email me information about what agencies are cutting down healthy ash trees in Ohio, Indiana and Canada I would be happy to post that information here.