OTNP July 2024
Starlicide BY AMIE WHITTEMORE Lovely poem see its entirety here
edgeeffects.net/starlicide/
…. with assurances that Starlicide won’t enter the food chain
because it’s metabolized so fast you could say it flies
through starlings (and crows and blackbirds), plummeting
them to earth, upsetting all sorts of humans who once thought
bird crap on their cars nuisance enough. We’re assured
Starlicide has no known side effects aside from bird downpours
which, though problematic, won’t undercut the minimized ….
Amie Whittemore is the author of the poetry collection Glass Harvest
The pesticides that our national parks spray – are in the animals homes. The animals have to walk (or hop 😀) around in it. They don’t have showers to wash it off. Most have to Lick. It. Off. Others just get to absorb it … Slowly … through their skin.
nps response to my 8-month-old request for FOIA information on pesticide use in our national parks and Wilderness areas (promised by last December): None
Which, funnily enough, is exactly the same as the response the nature conservancy (tnc) gave me regarding their pesticide use on the surprisingly vast amount of their😂 land: None.
sierra club national response to inquiries about questioning the pesticide use in the Parks: None audubon society: None wwf: None
Center For Biological Diversity: Here is a link to all our FOIA data! Anything else we can do to help?
California Department of Pesticide Regulation. (CDPR): We would love to help! Here is access to our Pesticide Use Reporting (PUR) databases. Unfortunately the nps won’t give us information on nps land. 😞
Several California counties: We cannot get any real info from the nps either, but here is what little we do have, maybe that will help.
I’ve just been reviewing some information that I recently got from some _private_ land spraying in the national parks (overseen by the nps while refusing to give me any of _their_ data). But this tiny, tiny bit of actual info clearly brings up a second issue. Besides the actual pesticides being used, there are additives that are added to some of the pesticide cocktails called adjuvants.
These adjuvants are added, not by the pesticide manufacturers, but by the end user; specifically to: 1) increase adhesion (stickiness) of the product (to leaves or stems). 2) protect the product from evaporation. 3) keep the product from washing off due to rain or fog. 4) in other ways improve the effectiveness of the final product.
So an animal (ignoring that yellow warning tape 😊 and) walking, fleeing, or hunting through an area sprayed would collect significantly more of the pesticide mixture sticking to its fur, exoskeleton, or feathers (think of it as toxic honey that the animal rubs up against). Again, it can not shower or bathe, so must lick or preen it off; and would therefore receive a much higher _ingested_ dose of the toxins.
Virtually none of these toxins are adequately tested for mammalian, avian, or herpetofauna ingestion. Even simple skin contact for humans increases rates of cancer, Parkinson’s and many other diseases. Mountain lions, bobcats, birds, and many other endangered animals are certainly now dying of mange, cancer, Parkinson’s type diseases, and worse. I do not believe that the pesticide industry’s PR departments and sales people are adequately explaining all these issues to our national park administrators. Or to the nps’s ipm departments.
Hey “the nature conservancy” what toxins are you spraying?
The audubon society has _failed_ in protecting our birds. Ever seen a bird preen its feathers and comb its feathers with its feet? For 60 _years_ these “environmental” groups have failed us and our native animals. They have not been promoting pesticide intelligence.
It has been more than 6 months since the audubon society has been asked about pesticides in our national parks. They are far more interested in their money campaigns then actually doing anything of _importance for the birds_. The next time you are interested in donating money to any environmental group other than the _one_ I am aware of that posts it’s FOIA data online, ask yourself one question; do they re-hoard environmental FOIA data?
I fundamentally question any re-hoarding of _public_, environmentally beneficial information; FOIA or otherwise. Groups who acquired FOIA data -especially data about the environment- got it _because_ it is public information. Any group that then hoards it again is a _major_ part of our problem. Here is a sample letter to send your perspective conservation group.
www.puravidaaquatic.com/wordpress/environmental-formletter/
The nature conservancy (tnc) is the world’s largest nongovernmental “conservation” organization and ranked 17th on the 2023 Forbes list of the 100 largest U.S.-based charities (all charities, not just environmentally focused) = $$,$$$,$$$,$$$ The Nature Conservancy has total assets of $9 . . . Billion. And they will not even say which of the 20-_thousand_ US approved pesticides and adjuvants (or how much!) they are currently promoting. Our national parks are still using _huge_ amounts of glyphosate and other restricted biocides. The tnc refuses to say that they are not using glyphosate . . . or paraquat or . . . carbaryl on “their”🤣 “conserved”🤣 lands. Shame on them!
I believe there are three easy things we can do to start a significant change.
www.puravidaaquatic.com/wordpress/just-three-easy-steps/
For past Our Toxic National Parks (OTNP) issues. _OTNP on X
www.puravidaaquatic.com/wordpress/past-ourtoxicnationalparks-posts/
But you may want to start here.
www.puravidaaquatic.com/wordpress/why-i-started-this/
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The best to you all. Bob 😀 thank you Awesome Kimberly.
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