Please open your eyes concerning the spartina eradication program using noxious chemicals. The scientists involved in this program should be reprimanded and or replaced. Here is one true example of them wasting our tax dollars. Last January, while walking out Damon Point near our Ocean Shores home, my wife and I stumbled upon an approximate 2 acre plot of last years chemically sprayed spartina meadow. Upon closer observation we noticed new green growth protruding out of the base of the brown spartina grass.
One month later we returned and noticed more than half of this plot washed into the bay before the next spraying. (We were told it takes up to four years of chemical applications to kill this oxygen producing plant!) Instead of eradication this program has spread this plant throughout the bay. Talk about job security!! We took lots of before and after pictures to prove this tax dollar/ chemical abuse.
Please end this dangerous approach to spartina eradication and mandate mechanical methods only to truly eradicate rather than spread this so called invasive species. In this economy our tax revenue cannot tolerate this type of absurdity.

Thank You
Steve Bova
229 Toleak St.
Ocean Shores, WA 98569
360-289-9811
360-580-5534