Thursday, December 31, 2009

Mosquito Control Aerial Spraying Is Troubling


BALD EAGLES TO DEVELOPERS, AMCD: DON'T MESS WITH OUR NESTS -- IT IS A FEDERAL CRIME

See the link (top right) for the locations of bald eagle nests in St. Johns County.

The location of bald eagle nests in St. Johns County is a matter of public record.
This information should have been used to direct aerial spraying to avoid eagles nest.

It wasn't. Violating its organophosphate ban, AMCD repeatedly sprayed 101,000 acres with organophosphates in June, after some twenty inches of rainfall. This showed poor judgment. Worse, AMCD sprayed organophosphates in areas with bald eagle nests.

Did our Mosquito Control District violate two federal criminal laws -- the Migratory Bird Treaty Act and the Bald and Golden Eagle Protection Act?

Will the U.S. Fish & Wildlife bring a criminal case?

As a result of another USF&WS criminal investigation, the development business owned by the grandson of the St. Augustine Record's founder, PIERRE THOMPSON's THOMPSON BROTHERS REALTY, pled guilty to molesting a bald eagle. THOMPSON molested a nesting pair of bald eagles on October 8, 2001 within the city limits of the City of St. Augustine on Anastasia Island, at Fish Island, when PIERRE THOMPSON ordered a bald eagle nest tree to be cut down, despite being told it was a bald eagle nest.

Was PIERRE THOMPSON a piker compared to AMCD board member RONALD RADFORD and AMCD managers, who met in June 2009 and discussed aerial spraying without a map of bald eagle nests? Will RONALD RADFORD and AMCD staff show up to the next AMCD meeting with their criminal defense lawyers?

Will AMCD promise never again to engage in the promiscuous aerial spraying of organophosphate DIBROM on unconsenting people and unsuspecting animals, including some 40 bald eagle nests in St. Johns County?

Will AMCD and RADFORD apologize for treating St. Johns County like Vietnam, arrogantly spraying us with organophosphates from the air?

The bald eagle is our national symbol. Let's protect it.


PIERRE THOMPSON MOLESTED a nesting pair of bald eagles on October 8, 2001, ordering that their nest tree be cut down at Fish Island (on Anastasia Island). USF&WS investigators pursued a successful criminal case against THOMPSON, whose longtime lawyers were GEOFFREY DOBSON (former St. Augustine City Attorney) and RONALD WAYNE BROWN (current St. Augustine City Attorney).

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