Word: picloram
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Cheery "Blue." The three main defoliants, each cheerily known by the color of the band on its container, do their job with convincing efficiency. "Blue" contains arsenic and burns the juices out of narrow-leaf grasses and rice. "White," a mixture of a persistent chemical called Picloram and 2,4-di-chlorophenoxyacetic acid, causes leaves to shower from trees within weeks. Strongest and most heavily used is "Orange," a mixture of 2,4-D and 2,4,5-tri-chlorophenoxyacetic acid, whose dangers were widely publicized last winter in a New Yorker article by Thomas Whiteside. Last month...
What upsets Nelson is the fact that engineers are cutting the strip by spraying picloram, the same pesticide used by the U.S. military on the Demilitarized Zone in Viet Nam. The chemical kills sizable trees and brush vegetation for at least two years. In a letter to Secretary of State William Rogers this week, Nelson protests: "In effect, we are creating a North American DMZ, a sort of environmental disaster strip in the midst of some of the most magnificent wilderness country on earth...
...Presumably 2,4-D, 2,4,5-T and picloram...
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