Aerial Spraying

Noticed the helicopter traversing north of the clubhouse on Wednesday above the Coldstream Ranch's grazing lands.
Probably 5 times, back and forth, grid-like.

Then the whir of blades in the still air at 5 a.m. Thursday morning likely woke up everyone in the valley.
It was too hot by 11 a.m. to sit outdoors but if that helicopter swept the valley once, he did it 100 times, again in a grid-like pattern, west to east, and circling back near west Coldstream.
It ended around noon today.

Spray passes above the clubhouse and then over the ranch's grazing lands.

Seeing the boom arms beneath, likely fed from an interior tank, "He's spraying something" was heard.

People didn't recall a recent notification in the newspaper of spraying something.

And a decidedly ahem comment from an individual had my eyebrows arching furiously...I was directed to this website about chemtrails. 


"Definitely ahem," alerts Kia adding, "the choppers were probably dispersing a harmless-to-humans spray for Spruce Budworm." 

Pardon the poor camera zoom, but is this the beginning of Spruce Budworm attacking trees on the north slope across from Highlands Golf?

The reddish colour isn't obvious in this poor photo, but there are definitely reddish looking trees around that selective logging.

 
"Woke me up at 5 a.m. too," complains Kia.

Whatever it was, let's hope it worked.