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HB320 Pesticide control exemptions - This bill should become law. Volunteers can play an important role in an overall strategy to control invasive plants on public land, but their effectiveness is greatly curtailed if they are unable to apply herbicides. Supervised and limited use of herbicides will increase volunteer effectiveness by avoiding repeating the same work year after year.

HB320 please support & pass. As stated in previous comment, this would allow volunteers with training and oversight by govt entity to use unrestricted herbicides through spot treatments of invasives. Ironically these products and limited use are sold to consumers with zero Virginia restrictions for use on their private property. This bill would allow use on public lands but only with training and guidance by the local entity. Industry complaints about this bill fail to recognize the limited products and use involved here.

As a geologist, Invasive Management Areas site leader, and Oakton resident, I support bills HB1000, HB1056, HB1085, HB1100, HB1449, HB1520, HB320, and HB524. These bills will improve the way we understand and and live in harmony with nature by encouraging research partnerships, avoiding the harm of pollution, invasive plants, and pipelines, and encouraging the preservation and protection of valuable ecosystems.

I support this bill. As a person passionately devoted to saving trees and our eco system, I recognize that herbicides are critical for the eradication of some invasive species. I think agencies or non-profits could provide safety training to ensure that volunteers use these products safely-just as the NPS requires volunteers to be trained before they can cut down invasive species on park land.

I support this bill. As a person passionately devoted to saving trees and our eco system, I recognize that herbicides are critical for the eradication of some invasive species. I think agencies or non-profits could provide safety training to ensure that volunteers use these products safely-just as the NPS requires volunteers to be trained before they can cut down invasive species on park land.

I support bill HB320 along with the support of Friends of the Accotink. While I am in general leery of chemical pesticides the reality is that certain invasive species have such extensive root systems and virulence of growth/regrowth that herbicides are an effective necessity ideally in limited forms such paint herbicide application to high virulence. Asian Wisteria Porcelain berry vine, mature Asian honeysuckles are all examples of plants that take over and become extremely challenging to remove if it is possible at all.

I SUPPORT HB223, HB320, and HB47. (I declared support for HB221 to curb outdoor and feral cats in another comment.) I only wish HB47 could go farther and place an outright ban on the sale of invasive plants. I am appalled that it isn't already the law that someone convicted of animal cruelty is barred from ever owning a pet in the future. Let's fix that post haste! And HB320 is important to pass because we need to get rid of invasive species - they are causing tremendous damage to our native flora and fauna. (As are free-roaming cats, hence my support for HB221.)

Friends of Accotink Creek supports HB 320. Allowing volunteers apply best practices for controlling invasive vines (painting herbicide on freshly cut stumps/roots) will allow them to do the job properly. Just cutting the vines is a waste of time. Uprooting vines on a regular basis risks serious back injury to volunteers. Some infestations like lesser celandine and ailanthus trees can ONLY be controlled by herbicides. Virginia hasn't the funds to pay herbicide crews to treat all its invasive-infested areas. The slack will have to picked up by volunteers.

Invasive plants are destroying Virginia's natural places, proliferating in parks and along roadsides. They destroy native habitat and infrastructure and cost Virginians millions to manage. It is essential to create a sizable volunteer force to increase our response to controlling invasive plants. We need to enable volunteers to use herbicide to address this problem in the commonwealth. By changing the regulations to allow any unpaid volunteer with the authority of a local political subdivision and properly designated instruction to treat invasives, we can begin to make a dent in this problem. I have first hand experience working with volunteer groups on private land, who when properly trained can be a powerful force in land management. It is a cost-effective and common sense approach.

HB47 Please support this bill. Invasive plants should not be available for sale in Virginia nurseries. Our state government has estimated that invasive plants are costing Virginia's economy upwards of $1 billion per year. I walk around our neighborhood clipping English Ivy off of trees as these invasive vines slowly kill trees. Much of the general public, landscapers and nurseries are ignorant about the cost of invasive plants. They spread and over take our landscape destroying habitat and food for our birds, pollinators and other wildlife. HB320 Please support this bill which would allow the many volunteers that are tackling the invasives problem to do an effective job in eliminating them once and for all by using herbicides. HB316 Please support this bill so we can move to a circular economy. We need a recycling vision and facilities so that Virginians can keep plastic out of the ocean, re-use glass, paper and aluminum. Business opportunities exist at the local levels. Food waste and compostable packaging need a digester. Plastics can be recycled into toys and other consumer products. There should be no single use products that pollute our land and our oceans. Without commitment this won't happen. HB245 Please support this bill and let's see what chemical companies are dumping into our environment. PFAs are dangerous and are accumulating in all of our bodies. They are everywhere. We need to stop and protect ourselves and our children. The toxic chemicals surround us and we allow the chemical companies to dupe us into thinking that they are safe.

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Our industry is opposed to allowing unlicensed and non-certified persons apply pesticides. Our industry works very hard to ensure persons train for at least 40 hours and pass VDACS' examinations before they apply these products. While House Bill 320 addresses a real need, the proliferation of invasive plants, allowing volunteers to apply pesticides is the wrong solution and is an insult to businesses who diligently train employees to become certified, attend additional training every two years, and are constantly monitored by VDACS. That licensing, training, and monitoring ensures pesticides are applied properly, without harm to the environment, the applicator, and anyone else who might be exposed to the pesticide. Safety, calibration, application procedures, and prevention of spills are just four components of proper pesticide usage - licensed applicators undergo extensive training in those and other vital areas. Attached is a letter we sent to Liza Fleeson Trossbach, Program Manager of the Office of Pesticide Services, expressing our concerns regarding allowing unlicensed volunteers to apply pesticides. Thank you for your consideration, Tom Tracy, PhD mobile (757-681-6065)

Please support HB320! Invasive plants are over-running the natural areas of the Commonwealth. Volunteers are necessary to push back this scourge, which harms biodiversity today and ruins the future of our parks. Volunteers can be made much more effective by permitting controlled usage of herbicides in certain circumstances. HB320 has great personal interest to me. I work with the National Park Service in a very similar fashion, as a volunteer but permitted to utilize herbicides in certain circumstances. As a result of this permission, I am much more effective in removing the invasive plant damage that is occurring every day in natural areas near my home. Doing so improves my motivation and enthusiasm to volunteer as I see my efforts are not wasted. I spend close to 500 hours a year removing invasives and am making a material difference in the health of natural areas. The ability to use herbicides as a volunteer, in this bill, is not unlimited. Park authorities would get to choose who and how any volunteer could operate. In other words, the bill does not create a right to go use herbicides – it only allows local authorities to leverage volunteers to assist in protecting our threatened natural resources. No local authorities have enough resources to protect their natural areas without leveraging volunteers and this bill could improve the effectiveness of volunteers.

I am a "Tree Rescuer" -- a volunteer who removes invasive vines in order to save our beautiful trees and tree canopy. It is very discouraging to see a tree that one "saved" by manual removal of English Ivy, only to have it come back the next year. We need a permanent solution to remove these invasive vines - we cannot continue to come back to the same trees year after year AND rescue new ones each year. Herbicides can be safely applied by trained volunteers. This is the only way we can start to permanently remove some of these invasive species; otherwise, it is a losing battle.

Please approve HB320 to allow unpaid volunteers to apply herbicide. Invasive plants, trees & vines are devastating our natural environment. Tireless volunteers spend thousands of hours a year manually removing invasive plants but many invasives come back a few months later. Training volunteer site leaders to apply herbicides to invasives in specific ways could have an enormous, long-term impact on stopping their spread.

Please support HB320. It is extremely important to allow volunteers to be able to utilize herbicides when they are trying to help remove invasive plant species. While there are some invasive plants that can be managed by manual or mechanical means alone, There are may species — such as Tree of Heaven, Japanese knotweed, and Asian wisteria — that cannot be successfully controlled without the use of appropriate herbicides. And there are simply not enough paid personnel to manage the volume of these invasive plants that we are dealing with in the Commonwealth. Our state government has estimated that invasive plants are costing Virginia's economy upwards of $1 billion per year. Please allow unpaid volunteers to help remove invasive plants in the most effective way possible. Thank you for your consideration.

Please support HB320. It's super important for managing invasive plants in municipal and regional parks. I know this from years of experience leading volunteers to manage plants like English ivy, Oriental bittersweet, Japanese knotweed, and other invasive plants that cannot be easily managed without herbicides. We volunteers are currently heavily reliant on our jurisdiction staff partners, for example, to apply small amounts of herbicide to stumps that volunteers have cut, so the plant doesn't grow back. But our local jurisdictions often aren't able to provide enough herbicide support. If we were able to train and apply herbicides in small quantities, responsibly, ourselves, this would allow our volunteer work to be much more effective without costing our jurisdiction partners much at all. Under Virginia law, private property owners may use unrestricted herbicides on their own properties without VDACS pesticide certification. HB320 simply extends this exemption to municipalities, authorizing them to design and implement a volunteer invasive plant control program, to treat natural areas on their properties that otherwise will not get treated for lack of resources. The safety, training, and liability components of the program would be the responsibility of the municipality. There are no contractors or municipal parks staff doing this work that volunteers would displace.

I am in favor of this bill. I run an invasive plant removal group in Fairfax County. We are not able to keep up with the invasive plants by only cutting. Park personnel do not have enough time to apply pesticides often enough to make significant progress against invasive plants. We need as many options as possible to combat invasive plants.

HB 320. Each day I see negative impacts caused by nonnative invasive plants on our forests and watersheds. That’s why I volunteer my time as a Tree Rescuer clipping vines from native trees. But we need ability to responsibly use unrestricted pesticides so we can “stump treat” a small dab of herbicide on certain vines, killing the roots as well. Please vote for and support HB320.

Please vote yes to HB 320 to allow regular volunteers (under the supervison the of the particular park authority) use herbicides on public lands to help the state fight infestations of invasive plants. Parks don't have the funds to hire the numbers of licensed herbicide professionals needed for the scale of the problem. I speak as a volunteer who removes invasives in a local park where we cut and recut the same same old vines and bushes over and over again. Herbicides would be much more effective -and safer for us than risking back injury yanking out massive roots. Sometimes this kind of work is done by teenagers with community service hours to do. They sign in and are handed sharp dangerous tools like pick axes. If this is considered safe, why fret about giving volunteers small spray or sponge bottles of herbicide?

I am writing to support legislation for cities to be able to ban gas-powered leaf blowers, instead of it having to be a state regulation. The Mayor and City Council in Alexandria, as well as many concerned citizens would like to be able to use electric-powered leaf blowers only. As you know, Alexandria is one of the most densely populated cities in the country, and we are almost constantly assaulted by the sound of gas-powered leaf blowers three seasons of the year. And the effects of the gas on the environment are harmful. This is one more thing we can do to help our ailing planet.

I have been a member of blue ridge prism and manage a 1600 acre farm in loudoun county VA. Herbicide is an essential tool to managing invasive species, and with proper training, can make a significant impact to win the war on invasive plants. I fully support the use of herbicides and volunteers are a crucial piece to the puzzle. Please empower these volunteers so they can help make a difference!

Blue Ridge PRISM's is a public charity dedicated to reducing the impact of invasive plants on the ecosystems of the northern Blue Ridge Mountains and surrounding areas through regional and statewide advocacy, landowner support, implementing control measures, and public education. Blue Ridge PRISM supports HB 320 which critical to developing a skilled volunteer workforce to assist public land managers to care for city/county/state parks, forests, and natural areas.

Please vote yes for Delegate Bulova's HB320. Virginia has about 3.7 million acres of public lands. Very little of it (from what I've seen) is free from tree-killing vines or other invasive vegetation. The same for thousands of miles of our roadsides. Either taxpayers fork out for herbicide crews where needed, or we allow volunteers do the job. The first option would likely cost billions. The second, next to nothing. Here Virginia might learn from the state of Illinois which in 2010 amended its pesticide law to allow volunteers with at least one hour of safety training apply pre-mixed consumer-grade herbicides on public lands to control invasive plants. Much of these applications consist of daubing freshly cut vines or stumps with product from 4 oz, non-spill, sponge bottles. This method is safe, economical, and eliminates overspray.(For more info, contact the Forest Preserve District of Kane County, Illinois.)

Please support this bill. I have spent hundreds of volunteer hours on public lands cutting and snipping invasive plants. The impact of these actions are only temporary, if the plants are not uprooted or killed with the use of herbicide. It is very difficult to eradicate established invasive vines and shrubs without the help of herbicides. In order to apply herbicides, certification is required. To become a certified applicator, one must learn about all chemical pesticides and train under a certified commercial applicator. This is big barrier for even the most committed volunteer. This bill would make it easier take advantage of willing and eager volunteers to help battle the invasive vines and shrubs threatening our forests and natural landscapes.

Please approve HB320: Pesticide control exemptions; herbicide applications by unpaid volunteers. It may be confusing at first glance, what this will do is allow the severely cash-strapped managers of public lands to take advantage of the volunteer pool that is already accessible to the owners of other spaces such as HOA common land. It does not force them to do it, but if they choose to do so, they can write in as many rules as they like to satisfy any concerns about safety and liability. As it is, our natural areas continue to degrade under the onslaught of invasive non-native plants. The volunteer workforce toils away trying to control many of these plants only to have them pop right up again a few months later. You can only imagine how frustrating it is to watch infestations of tree-killing vines steadily spread despite all our hard work. A program that trains selected volunteers to apply herbicide in carefully delineated ways would vastly increase their contribution to the overall effort to save our trees and our natural areas from going completely to pot, which is what is happening now.