"Five months after timber worker Darryl Ivy blew the whistle on his employer's helicopter spray practices in Oregon's forests, the state Department of Agriculture has proposed revoking the company's license and fining it more than $40,000.
Ivy, a truck driver, spent 17 days this spring on a spray crew in Douglas County, the heart of Oregon's timber country. Videos and photos he shot show that he routinely hid inside his pickup truck while herbicides rained down. The milky chemical mix stained Ivy's windshield white and turned his phlegm red."
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