A Lyons area woman with no academic pedigree has published a scientific paper in the International Journal of Forestry Research about the adverse effects of radio waves on aspen seedlings.

Katie Haggerty, who lives north of Steamboat Mountain, found in a preliminary experiment done near her house that aspens shielded from the waves were healthier than those that were not.

“I found that the shielded seedlings produced more growth, longer shoots, bigger leaves and more total leaf area. The 20100702__04dcalonw_500.jpg

group produced 60 percent more leaf area and 74 percent more shoot length than a mock-shielded group,” she said.

She began studying electromagnetic fields 20 years ago. In 2005, when she noticed that her geraniums were stunted, she put the plants in a Faraday cage, an enclosure covered by a metal screen that blocks radio frequency energy, and soon found that the plants had larger leaves and were growing more vigorously.

via Lyons woman studies how radio waves affect trees – Boulder Daily Camera.