Re: RC: EnviroHorse: 2nd Meeting: We're On Our Way!

["Linda B. Merims" <lbm@ici.net>]

connie B Berto wrote:
> 
> For those of you who have not heard, Envirohorse is an all-volunteer,
> not-for-profit group that is just getting started...
>
>     Our initial "long list" of concerns has been narrowed to these
> projects, each currently assigned to participants:
>   -- non-pathogenic e.coli in water and effects on people and fauna
>  --  nutrients in water
>  --  thermal issues in composting
>  --  non-bridge ecological stream crossings
>  --  syntheses of what is known on exotic seed spread by equines
>  --  environmental issues in horsekeeping
>  --  decomposition rates for to horse excrement...

Connie, I don't see cryptosporidium and ghiardia specifically listed
on this list of priorities.  Deliberate?  Oversight?  Those two
are real hot spots and I don't believe that the existing research
papers on crypto and ghiardi in horses are adequate to combat
peoples' fears.

Linda B. Merims
lbm@ici.net
Massachusetts, USA


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