[Vision2020] attention Dave Trail

[Donovan Arnold]

Kai,

What always made me laugh when I lived in Hayden was people would move into 
the town, which is right next farm land, and then complain about the field 
burning. I could not believe it! The farmers had been there for over a 
hundred years and they had to stop burning because they were out voted by 
the all the neighborhood residents that moved next door and complained.

They built Lakeland High School and some elementary schools right next to 
the farmland, and then would write to their legislatures and to the 
newspaper demanding that the farmers stop burning fields, then stop plowing 
because of the dust, then stop farming because of the noise. It is crazy. 
People are dumb. They should think about this stuff before building next to 
farm land.

If you build a school next to farm land people are going to complain about 
the farming activities. I am not a farmer, my family was military, business, 
and education. But I have lived next to farms, and they are noisy, dusty, 
sometimes smelly, and very unpleasant, that is why the land next to them is 
so cheap.

I just hope people take this into consideration BEFORE putting their 
children out there on a farm.

Take Care,

Donovan J Arnold



>From: "Kai Eiselein" <editor at lataheagle.com>
>To: <vision2020 at moscow.com>
>Subject: [Vision2020] attention Dave Trail
>Date: Thu, 7 Apr 2005 10:17:29 -0700
>
>Donovan,
>
>I haven't been out that way since last winter, but my guess is what you saw
>burned were draws and edges, not fields. Wheat fields generally don't get
>burned. Bluegrass does. I farmed with my inlaws for several years and we
>only burned a wheat field once and that took a permit. The reason we burned
>it? It was ground that we just aquired and it so foul with noxious weeds
>that burning was the best way to start controling them.
>The wind generally blows west here. The remaining ground is generally west
>of the site, so dust would generaly drift away from the school. The worst
>period for dust and chaff is during harvest, which is usually over before
>school starts in the fall.
>People love the beauty of farmland, but they hate the dust, noise and
>everything else that goes along with it.
>
>Kai T. Eiselein
>Editor
>Latah Eagle
>521 S. Jackson St.
>Moscow, ID 83843
>(208) 882-0666 Fax (208) 882-0130
>editor at lataheagle.com
>
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