Agent Orange/Chem-Trails: USAF dusts Idaho with chemicals, in the name of fighting wildfires!

I discovered that in September 2020, of The Pandemic, the U.S. Air Force (USAF) conducted herbicide spraying over a part of Idaho, claiming that it was an attempt to prevent wildfires by killing Cheatgrass.

U.S. Air Force photo by Senior Airman Christina Russo, 22SEP2020.

The operation was launched from Mountain Home Air Force Base (AFB), using a USAF Reserve 910th Airlift Wing (AW) C-130H Hercules ‘Weed Whacker’ out of Ohio. The USAF also claimed that their herbicide mission would somehow not affect the endangered Sagebrush, and they were actually trying to protect the Sagebrush by targeting Cheatgrass.

Low-tech spray nozzles protruding from sides of the C-130H ‘Weed Whacker’. USAF photo by Senior Airman Christina Russo, 22SEP2020.

The spraying took place over the Saylor Creek bombing & gunnery range near Mountain Home AFB.

USAF video explainer, by Staff Sergeant Juliet Louden, how the mission of the C-130H Weed Whacker is planned:

USAF photo by Senior Airman Christina Russo, 22SEP2020.

Cheatgrass is considered an invasive species, brought into North America by European illegal immigrants, oops, I mean settlers. Apparently animals do not like to eat Cheatgrass, due to its short life cycle and low nutrition, it is blamed as a major cause for the decline of a bird called Sage Grouse. Once Cheatgrass gets established it prevents native plants from growing. A top problem associated with Cheatgrass is wildfires. It is bad, mmm-kay.

USAF photo by Senior Airman Christina Russo, 22SEP2020.

From September 14th through 25th, the Weed Whacker flew 1-hundred feet above ground level, at 2-hundred knots ground speed, dumping 19-thousand-979 gallons of diluted herbicide over 3-thousand-50 acres. The crop dusting over Saylor Creek Training Range takes place every year (has the Cheatgrass become resistant?).

Some Weed Whacker video by Staff Sergeant Juliet Louden, 23SEP2020:

The 910th AW’s C-130H Weed Whacker is also used for spraying insecticides, and oil dispersants onto oil spills. It is the only ‘large aircraft’ used by the USAF to conduct spray missions.