Lawsuit Seeks Endangered Species Act Protection Decisions for American Bumblebee, Three Other Bees

Lawsuit Seeks Endangered Species Act Protection Decisions for American Bumblebee, Three Other BeesCenter for Biological Diversity v. U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service Docket number(s): 4:24-cv-00183 Court/Admin Entity: D. Ariz.
“American bumblebees — Once among the most common and widespread bumblebees, American bumblebees were found in open areas across all of the lower 48 states except Washington. After a severe decline starting in the 2000s, this iconic bumblebee has disappeared from at least eight states” biologicaldiversity.org/w/news/press-releases/lawsuit-seeks-endangered-species-act-protection-decisions-for-american-bumblebee-three-other-bees-2024-04-01/#:~:text=American%20bumblebees%20%E2%80%94…Oh we don’t have enough resources to do our job boohoohoo. Bumblebee decline didn’t come out of nowhere. It didn’t happen yesterday. Just like the National Park service taking a year to look up pesticide information.

They cannot be so ignorant and clueless that they had no expectation that requests to protect our bees or to find out what toxins are being sprayed would be made in this day and age.

The CBD had to sue the “service” for the information that the u.s. fish & wildlife service was legally _required_ to provide. Yet the nps and us fish and wildlife claim that it just takes too much effort from them. Crying big crocodile tears: they would if they just had more money … to pay executive salaries. Your tax money funds the lawyers for the us fish and wildlife services lawbreaking. Just like FOIA there are no penalties.

Our tired, old, legacy environmental groups (sierra club, audubon, and world wildlife fund have been complicit with this behavior for decades. Our tired old legacy environmental groups (OTOLEG😀) have been pesticide enablers for 60 years. It is time to put your action where your mouth is. Three easy things.

How much do these supervisors, managers, superintendent’s make? How much is their budget? I get wonderful, _helpful_, and virtually immediate responses from California Fish And Game, (who; by the way are working to put several bumblebee species on California’s endangered species list) California Department Of Pesticide Regulation, the Center For Biological Diversity, and several agriculture commissioners. These people who care and who do their best. I do not get decent responses from (OTOLEG😀) Just like sierra club and audubon senior staff, the us fish and wildlife service and the national park service seem to have the same senior staff and management problems that Boeing has. What do you think those problems are?

Rethink where you spend your environmental dollar!
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Watch "Gulf Crossing: Story of Spring" on YouTube

A bird double century! 😀 And if you don’t know what a double century is: 100 miles on a bicycle is often referred to as a century. There are two, three, and even four hundred mile events. Centuries and doubles usually within 17 hours, triple and quad within 24 hours. And then there is Race Across America RAAM. Holy frack! Cycling is fun and these birds are awesome.

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Nearly 3 Billion Birds Gone | Birds, Cornell Lab of Ornithology

www.birds.cornell.edu/home/bring-birds-back/#:~:text=the%20North%20American%20bird%20population%20is%20down%20by%202.9%20billion%20breeding%20adults%2C%20with%20devastating%20losses%20among%20birds…
The Audubon society has failed to protect our birds for 60 years. They and the Sierra club are pesticide enablers. These two groups are _not_ defending our environment.
When these two start publishing pesticide use _data_ from our national parks and wilderness areas they will have made a small step towards what they should have been doing for 60 _years_.
And there are a lot of other environmental groups that say one thing and do another! So I will now promote. The Center For Biological Diversity: they publish their FOIA data, and Toxinfreeusa.org: who seem genuinely concerned and interested in our communications.
The best to everyone here. Don’t waste your money with environmental groups that aren’t.
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Blind as a Bat… Biologist

“Although there are a few bat species with unique adaptations to desert and dryland habitats, most bats need water on a regular basis. Aquatic habitats have been increasingly deforested and modified over the last 5,000 years” race2extinct.com/blog/blind-as-a-bat-biologist/#:~:text=Although%20there%20are%20a%20few%20bat%20species%20with%20unique%20adaptations%20to%20desert%20and%20dryland%20habitats%2C%20most%20bats%20ne…
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Watch "Your Unstoppable Copy Machine|DNA Replication" on YouTube

https://youtu.be/lv89fSt5jBY?si=eGsN3qEGmbWDKqnc
How freaking fun is this? This is exactly why I love biology.
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Post from Beyond Pesticides (@ByondPesticides)

Beyond Pesticides (@ByondPesticides) posted at 9:04 AM on Tue, Aug 06, 2024: Factory #fish farming companies exporting to the USA sinched a win in #Scotland after the gov’t announced #delaying restrictions on #emamectin — a hazardous #pesticide that kills nontarget #marine life — until 2028! ☠️ #notOK @FerretScot @ScottishEPA Blog: t.co/5pASVCCgif ( x.com/ByondPesticides/status/1820853475644715494?t=38GtRuyKb6L-XhOfLnavcw&s=03 )
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Three powerful conservation groups have forgotten their histories and roots • Daily Montanan

Columnist Rick Meis says that the conservation groups involved in the Gallatin Wilderness issue are forgetting why they were founded.

Source: Three powerful conservation groups have forgotten their histories and roots • Daily Montanan

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We Must Create Safe Zones

August Our Toxic National Parks.

Brighten your day a little Carrol King’s Jazz Man

As the title above says: We _have_ to create safe zones. That is one of the reasons I started this #_OTNP project. I initially thought it would be very hard. But I must admit that I thought it would be a tiny bit easier than the sierra club, and our national park administrators have chosen to make it. 😀 https://www.puravidaaquatic.com/wordpress/why-i-started-this/

I believe that safe zones from pesticide use are critical to the environment and our own ability to survive on this planet. It is not as sexy as climate change. It is not as sexy as going to Mars. It is not as sexy as buying a new electric car. Worrying about chemical structures and chemical names and the chemicals making up adjuvants and pesticides is not sexy.

It is also not easy. Yes, I am reusing pictures. They seemed appropriate, and I have been worrying about these other (non-sexy😀) things!

What _is_ easy, is for some of my readers here to actively participate in three little easy steps to do. I am quite sure I can’t do this alone and that I need the assistance of _you_, and _all_ our so-called “environmental” groups.

I believe that a mean little, wildly efficient carnivore, that eats its prey alive, is _beautiful_ and desperately needs your help. Help in virtually the same way your children do.

In the last two decades America’s pesticide use rate has increased 500%.

If you are a parent, one of the most important things you can possibly do for your child is provide them with not more, but less pesticides in their world. If you care about your child at all, you must care about _their_ children, whom they will love just as much as you love them now. I believe that all of the Christmas /Hanukkah /Islamic /Kwanzaa /holiday presents _combined_ cannot come close to equaling a world for them with pesticide safe zones. Would that not be the best present of all time!

We need pesticide safe zones that have not been heavily sprayed with the latest greatest biocide. Zones that have the biodiversity that we still have today. Biodiversity that is less than we had yesterday but more than if we continue to let the pesticide industry rule as they have.

We should not be spending the time and effort on banning individual pesticides, individual classes of chemicals, or individual products until the next one comes along. Our national parks _should_ have been those safe zones; they are not. Instead, they are the personal playgrounds of the large pesticide producers.

We can reacquire _Our_ National Parks as safe zones; but only if we encourage our environmental groups to be environmental groups again.

Three easy steps. https://www.puravidaaquatic.com/wordpress/just-three-easy-steps/

If you want safe zones.

If you think that that is even remotely a good idea.

If you care about our children.

then you must help acquire them.

ProPublica is an interesting publication and one of their current projects identified a group of “connected political nonprofits — with names like American Breast Cancer Coalition and National Coalition for Disabled Veterans — that appear to be funneling more than 90% of donations to fundraisers.”

https://www.propublica.org/article/political-nonprofits-fundraising-ftc-irs-527s-pacs?utm_campaign=propublica-sprout&utm_content=1719543601&utm_medium=social&utm_source=twitter

I highly recommend that you do not continue to waste money contributing to organizations simply because their name sounds wonderful, or their name has been active in the past, or they have a particularly good advertising department.

As always I wish you all the best.

For past OTNP (#_OTNP on X) issues.
https://www.puravidaaquatic.com/wordpress/past-ourtoxicnationalparks-posts/
But you may want to start here. www.puravidaaquatic.com/wordpress/why-i-started-this/
If you have received this as a forward and would like to continue receiving it please email me “vidaaquatic@gmail.com”
And if you would like to donate as little as $5 to the cause, you can Zelle it to vidaaquatic@gmail.com. thank you very much. Bob
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DOI-NPS-2024-000098 Acknowledgment Letter

IN REPLY REFER TO: DOI-NPS-2024-000098 Oh a month ago I sent an email asking if there was any information on my FOIA request. I have not received any response back, and so I am worried that with all the fun political stuff going on, your office may be somewhat overwhelmed 😀. I hope things have slowed down a bit; or maybe it was misplaced? Hope you are well.
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On Mon, Jul 1, 2024, 8:00 AM VidaAquatic <vidaaquatic@gmail.com> wrote:
> Good morning Erica, I hope you are well this week! I believe that I was > promised information on my concerns by the end of last December (2023) Was > that date in error? I have not received anything as of the end of June > 2024. Is there an update on when I might receive any information? > > The best to you. > Robert Lloyd > > www.puravidaaquatic.com/ > > On Thu, Dec 21, 2023, 3:06 AM Beckett, Erica L < > erica_beckett@contractor.nps.gov> wrote: > >> Good Morning, >> >> Please attached. >> >> Sincerely, >> NPS FOIA Office >> >> >> >
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California Department of Fish and Wildlife (CDFW), neonicotinoid pesticides, forever chemicals, in state wildlife refuges

“SACRAMENTO, CA — After years of advocacy, the California Fish and Game Commission has finalized a rule in its “Department Lands” regulation package that prohibits the California Department of Fish and Wildlife (CDFW) from using neonicotinoid pesticides — often called “neonics” — on state wildlife refuges and other land under its jurisdiction”
earthjustice.org/press/2024/one-million-acres-in-california-protected-from-dangerous-neonic-insecticides#:~:text=SACRAMENTO%2C%20CA%20%E2%80%94,under%20its%20jurisdiction
Awesome work by EarthJustice and ABCbirds. Think about this info just a little bit. The CDFW is using many, many, other bee killing, ecology damaging, and forever chemicals on “their” wildlife refuges??? 😀😂🤔😀😂🤔 We must create safe zones. www.puravidaaquatic.com/wordpress/why-i-started-this/
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