[MAIPC] [EXTERNAL] Re: Volunteers and herbicide

[Spencer, Sandy]

In Maryland if you are an organization or gov't agency not a commercial entity and not doing this for pay, and someone with your organization has a pesticide applicators license then volunteers can work directly with that licensed person under their supervision to apply herbicides.  The regs may have changed recently to require that they be doing this to get hours and experience for their registered technicians or applicators licenses.   Here's the link to the Maryland Department of Agriculture that regulate pesticide application licenses.

https://mda.maryland.gov/plants-pests/Pages/pesticide_regulation.aspx
Pesticide Regulation - Maryland<https://mda.maryland.gov/plants-pests/Pages/pesticide_regulation.aspx>
The Pesticide Regulation Section administers Maryland's Pesticide Applicator's Law, approves training courses in the handling, storage and use of pesticides, conducts examinations to determine that pesticide applicators are competent to follow prescribed pest control practices, enforces federal laws on the sale and use of pesticides, and ...
mda.maryland.gov

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Subject: [EXTERNAL] Re: [MAIPC] Volunteers and herbicide




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In Maryland a company or organization has to carry the liability insurance. Also the business needs to be licensed.
There is an effort in the Maryland state legislature to put a statewide ban on glyphosate. That will hinder invasive species control.

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Subject: Re: [MAIPC] Volunteers and herbicide

We were told the same in Maryland, eastern shore counties, as individuals not employed by landscapers, etc., could not register.

On Tuesday, June 8, 2021, Tim Maywalt <temaywalt at gmail.com<mailto:temaywalt at gmail.com>> wrote:
It's very hard to get registered in Virginia. If you aren't with a government entity or university, farm, landscape firm, etc. - just on your own - it's nearly impossible.

On Tue, Jun 8, 2021 at 6:13 PM Marc Imlay <ialm at erols.com<mailto:ialm at erols.com>> wrote:

BTW my volunteers have not found it too hard to get registered.



Marc



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Subject: Re: [MAIPC] Volunteers and herbicide



Thank you for all of the great info people have sent. I am going to get back to our small committee and I may reach out to some people via their private emails. This is a great group and I truly appreciate all of the advice you have given.



Thank you!!!



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On June 8, 2021 at 12:18:01 PM, John Nystedt (johnericn at hotmail.com<mailto:johnericn at hotmail.com>) wrote:

When I have been a leader for invasive plant control for about 10 organizations in the last 20 years, we typically have about 5-10% of the volunteers first become pesticide application registered by the State of Maryland.  This has worked well. For example, a few other volunteers may cut the stumps of oriental bittersweet vines and the registered volunteer would follow up with applying herbicide to the cut stump in a few minutes.



Marc Imlay

Maryland Sierra Club Natural Places Committee.

Retired park ranger with MNCPPC in Prince Georges County


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