Norma Blackstone

UPDATE: As of this past weekend we started moving brush and trees in the clearing. There is still a lot of corn on the ground and it is now growing. See pic below. Any ideas what we can do? As I read in the above posts once these sprouts are destroyed the GMO will be gone. Is that right? (see the pics below). They are still working on removing the large amounts and hopefully will get it up by the end of this week.

The went past their easement and came up past our fence line in some places as much as 50'. Took out all of the fence for about 1600 to 1700 ft.

Sincere thanks for all your input! I couldn't think and you guys are helping so much!

I value all the information given so far. Keep it coming please.

You guys have given some amazing advice. I can not begin to tell you how overwhelming this is for us. I have been in a whirlwind so I have not gotten many names but I have photographed for each day and been in the field at least a couple of times a day.

I do have details of conversations; no names but I know their positions like the site foreman. Do you think that is enough? I feel so stupid and inept. The contractors have so many supervisors that I am unsure of who said what but I can give a detailed time and day and where I was standing when they said it.

Couple of things that stick with me from the beginning is they way they treated me. It was as if I am wrong asking them to stop taking down my trees. For 3 days they snapped off limbs and bulldozed trees back behind the fence line for as much as up to 50'. But most of all the guy in charge of clearing the debris told me they decided to mow down the acre and a half of woods 'TO SAVE A HALF AN HOUR OF TIME PER CAR TO GET THE RAILROAD UP AND RUNNING". Because "they are loosing millions of dollars" and " need to get the rails up and running A.S.A.P. I woke up to the leveled woods the next morning. What a shock.

Can you believe that! Do we own our own land! To me it is the principle...

Thank you everyone for such great advice. We are working toward an organic way of life. We have started and planted only GMO free and organic seeds in 5 large hugelbeds. And having good success with harvesting already this year.

We feed our animals only GMO free feed and free range chickens and ducks when possible. Since we have only been here 6 months we are going to add livestock next spring. Further we are taking the permie ehos courses offered by Jack Spirko. My husband wants to become certified. We are "permies" in the making. Yes we agree accidents happen and honestly we are not unreasonable people. I sincerely do not want to jepardize our progress going forward with contamination of any kind.

Ok the contractors working for the railroad company are the people who are clearing and talking to us. Communication from the actual railroad is non existent. The contractors have spent the last 4 days abusing and damaging my fence line ( approx. 1700" feet of fence) and anything in the way.

I begged them to please stop the damage. Asked them to use their own easement and leave my trees alone. How they can take advantage of me and my property without any care hurts. Who does this kind of stuff with blatant disregard for the owner.

I do not know for sure if they were lumber grade but the woods was extremely dense with old trees that were hardwood 30"X 40' tall and 20" X 30' tall junipers

No the train derailed onto my property and some of it fell into the easement next to my land. There were 18 cars that derailed. They decided to level my woods (1 1/2 acres) to use it for storing the corn they dug up from the easement and my property so they would have it all rounded up. In addition my concern is that they scraped the top soil from the easement which may have contaminants too. Lead most likely. EPA has stated it is not a contaminant. ? We are totally out of our element in this matter. We just bought this property with a house in December. Thanks for the advice everyone...please keep sending me suggestions. I REALLY need your help.

PLEASE HELP A.S.A.P. Sunday a train derailed onto our property. It dumped tons of food grade yellow corn on its way to Mexico onto our property. (18 cars full) Since we are trying to go completely permie we are upset about tons of (most likely) GMO/PESTICIDED corn. They have stored it in huge mounds on our land until they clean it up. I don't know if I should be concerned or not. Everyone says oh good no contamination. REALLY???

What my biggest concern is the gmo ratio to soil must be out of this world and I am not sure what impact it may have on my land.

EPA is here and said they will clean up most of it but what about the residual...? I don't know who to ask such questions but I am really concerned about my land and future animal raising with this much contamination. Or is it not going to affect us? Our land? Our animals? Us?

There are many other issues that I will say here quickly (they cleared about an acre of our land without asking to put the tons of corn in piles along with the debris from the railway (not to mention the debris from the train which may contain lead). I am really upset and sad to say that we just bought this 11 acre piece of land; "our serenity ranch" 6 months ago. What would you do if you were in this position? Do I have a valid concern?

Any help you may share with me would really be helpful.