Susan Kinner

Review of Cox Arboretum

We have always loved the metro parks and today was...

We have always loved the metro parks and today was no different. Beautifully maintained, architecturally special buildings. Glad to see the tower open! What shocked us was the metro parks volunteer spraying the walkways with herbicide he said is the same as round-up. This conversation took place adjacent to the butterfly house where moth cocoons were hatching! The walkways he sprayed were closed to visitors by cones. He explained if we stepped in that stuff and walked on the grass, we d leave ghost foot prints, presumably because the roundup will kill the grass. I am thoroughly disgusted that something as controversial as Roundup is being used in the Metroparks, and during visiting hours that we re crowded with groups of kids and other visitors and on such a breezy day (6/14/19 10am). I don t know what the Metroparks policy on poisons is, and I hope someone might respond to my comments and explain them.