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Norma Grier

They wanted to spray a chemical called 2, 4, 5-T which in combination with 2, 4-D was Agent Orange in the Vietnam War. The horrors of war were brought back for peacetime uses in forestry.

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Mary O’Brien

You get knocked down and you bounce back up. Simply because it’s wrong to manage the world by poisoning it.

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Carol Van Strum & Susan Swift Parker

I never thought of myself as an activist. I was just me…There are so many ways of fighting.

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Lynn Bowers

I have the ability to sense the presence of chemicals that overall people don’t notice. So I’m personally motivated to stop this terrible practice.

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Chris Rusch

I was one of the first women to work for the Forest Service back in the early ’70s. When I first started, as a matter of fact, I was the first woman to work in the Tiller Ranger District, and so maybe some of us are just pioneers at heart and want to see change.

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Eron King

There is no commerce if there is no nature. We depend on nature for everything. Once everybody realizes that, maybe they’ll start protecting it a little better.

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Marianne Dugan

Knowing about how the law works, it’s even more disturbing because the law actually protects plants more than people from pesticides and herbicides.

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Kathryn Rickard

"To be a realist, you need to understand both sides of the issue."

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Just stories is a group of University of Oregon students seeking to make positive change through storytelling. We aim to inspire relationships and provide resources for Oregonians working to improve our shared environment. We highlight the experiences of community leaders addressing herbicides in the framework of human rights and environmental health.