Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site pyuxa.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!floyd!vax135!houxz!houxm!mhuxl!ulysses!gamma!pyuxww!pyuxa!wetcw From: wetcw@pyuxa.UUCP (T C Wheeler) Newsgroups: net.politics Subject: Re: Sam Hall and Vietnam Message-ID: <822@pyuxa.UUCP> Date: Wed, 20-Jun-84 15:22:58 EDT Article-I.D.: pyuxa.822 Posted: Wed Jun 20 15:22:58 1984 Date-Received: Thu, 21-Jun-84 08:24:54 EDT References: <385@tty3b.UUCP> Organization: Bell Communications Research, Piscataway N.J. Lines: 12 Just a note about defoliated areas. There does not seem to be a long term effect on vegatation. The vegatation recovered the effects of agent orange quite rapidly. On the other hand, the jury is still out, in, out, in on the effects on humans and animals. Agent Orange was used in this country also, to clear right-of-ways along railroad tracks. The railroads usually had to keep going back and redoing the job as the toxins in the agent did not keep new growth from springing up. Even some trees, although losing all of their foliage, would recover by the next growth cycle. In Nam, they had to keep going back to the same areas as the vegatation regrew.