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Category Archives: Herbicides
A Pesticides Road Map
Calfornia is in the process of developing a road map for pesticide use. They have published the draft document for public comment. You have one more day in which to comment on this plan if you wish. The deadline is … Continue reading
Posted in Herbicides
Tagged Conservation Sense and Nonsense, environment, pesticide
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Sierra Club “Corrects” the Record – Fails
The Sierra Club shocked the environmental community, including many of its own members, when it not only failed to oppose the horrible East Bay plan to cut down hundreds of thousands of trees, but actually sued FEMA to cut down … Continue reading
Posted in Environment, eucalyptus, Herbicides
Tagged herbicide, sierra club, trees
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UCSF Meeting Report – 11 Feb 2014
UCSF had called this meeting to discuss, not Mount Sutro Forest, but their Long Range Development Plan. However, Craig Dawson, Executive Director of the Sutro Stewards sent out a call for people to attend and talk about Mt Sutro, apparently … Continue reading
Posted in Environment, eucalyptus, Herbicides, Mount Sutro Stewards, Mt Sutro Cloud Forest, UCSF
Tagged Aldea Student Housing, mount sutro, Sutro Forest, Sutro Stewards, UCSF
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Sutro Forest in January 2014
The unusual winter weather, with bright sunny days and hardly any rain, has drawn a lot of people to Sutro Forest. We’ve been up there a couple of times recently, and found an unusually large number of joggers, bicycle-riders, and … Continue reading
Posted in Environment, Herbicides, Hiking, Natural areas Program
Tagged environment, eucalyptus, mount sutro, Sutro Forest
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SF RPD 2013 Herbicide Use – A Correction
Recently, we published our analysis of the San Francisco Natural Areas Program (NAP)’s use of pesticide, and compared it with the rest of SF Recreation and Parks Department (SFRPD) . We said that NAP’s pesticide use had risen in 2013, … Continue reading
Posted in Herbicides, Natural areas Program
Tagged environment, Greenmatch EX, Natural Areas Program
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SF’s Natural Areas Program – More Pesticide in 2013
Edited to Add: We’ve corrected the comparison between NAP and other SFRPD herbicide use to account for a reclassification of Greenmatch EX, a lemongrass-based herbicide. Details HERE. Even as we celebrate UCSF’s decision not to use pesticides in Sutro Forest, … Continue reading
Posted in Herbicides, Natural areas Program
Tagged aminopyralid, Garlon, glyphosate, herbicide, imazapyr, nativism, Natural Areas Program, Roundup, triclopyr
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‘Natural’ Areas Program Using Pesticide in Sutro Forest
No sooner had UCSF announced it would not use pesticides than the Natural Areas Program (NAP) suddenly decided that it needed to use imazapyr in SF RPD’s part of Sutro Forest. The Forest is mostly owned by UCSF, but 19 … Continue reading
UCSF: No Pesticides for Mount Sutro Forest
A few weeks ago, we posted about UCSF’s revised plan for the forest. It was a substantial improvement – though we continue to have reservations. (Read about the changed direction and our comments HERE.) Today, we’d like to focus on … Continue reading
Posted in Herbicides, Herbicides: Roundup, Garlon, UCSF
Tagged environment, herbicide, Sutro Forest, UCSF
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Invasion Biology – Pseudoscience? – Talk in Berkeley, 14 July 2013
David Theodoropoulos, author of the book “Invasion Biology: Critique of a Pseudoscience” will be giving a talk in Berkeley this Sunday. It’s jointly sponsored by East Bay Pesticide Alert and the Social Justice Committee of the Berkeley Fellowship of Unitarian … Continue reading
Posted in Environment, Herbicides, Mt Sutro Cloud Forest
Tagged environment, herbicide, nativism, Sutro Forest
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War on Trees in the Bay Area
In a world where climate change is a reality, and trees our only defense (aside from actually reducing carbon emissions), it would seem to be a no-brainer that preserving existing trees would be environmentally important. The carbon sequestration and storage … Continue reading
Posted in deforestation, Environment, eucalyptus, Herbicides, Mt Sutro Cloud Forest, nativism, Natural areas Program, UCSF
Tagged deforestation, environment, eucalyptus
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Action Alert: TODAY is Deadline for East Bay Tree-felling Comments
This article is reprinted with permission from SFForest.net The deadline for comments on the Draft Environmental Impact Statement (EIS) for the East Bay Tree-felling plan is TODAY. From the FEMA website: Submitting Comments on the Draft EIS Written comments must … Continue reading
Posted in deforestation, Environment, eucalyptus, Herbicides, nativism
Tagged EIR, environment, eucalyptus, FEMA misuse, fire risk?, trees, unscientific
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Sutro Stewards: The Good, The Bad, and the… ???
In recent months, many people have asked us about the Sutro Stewards, and we’d like to explain our position. We’re not affiliated with them. The Sutro Stewards are a volunteer group that works primarily on Mount Sutro. Craig Dawson is … Continue reading
Posted in Environment, eucalyptus, Herbicides, Mount Sutro Stewards, nativism, UCSF
Tagged environment, mount sutro, Sutro Forest, UCSF
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Mission Blue Butterfly – Uncertainty Saga
Regular readers of this website know that we’ve been following the Natural Areas Programs attempts to reintroduce the Mission Blue Butterfly to Twin Peaks. We’ve just obtained the latest report from San Francisco Recreation and Parks Dept (SFRPD). It’s very … Continue reading
Posted in Herbicides, Natural areas Program
Tagged environment, mission blue butterfly, Natural Areas Program, Twin Peaks, wildlife
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SF’s Natural Areas Program Uses Even More Pesticides
This article was reprinted from sffforest.net with minor changes and additions. Sutro Forest may be the only pesticide-free wild land in San Francisco – but that could change this year. ————————- The 2012 final data are in, and it’s official: … Continue reading
Posted in Herbicides, Natural areas Program
Tagged aminopyralid, aquamaster, Garlon, imazapyr, pesticide, UCSF
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San Francisco’s Natural Areas: 2012 A Record Year for Pesticide Use
If, like us, you hoped that 2012 might be the year that San Francisco’s Natural Areas Program (NAP) proved us wrong about its escalating pesticide use — it’s not happening. That ship sailed in September. Readers of this site will … Continue reading
Posted in Herbicides, Herbicides: Roundup, Garlon, Natural areas Program, UCSF
Tagged glyphosate, herbicide, imazapyr, Natural Areas Program
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Measuring Pesticide Use by San Francisco’s Natural Areas Program
As readers of this site will know, we’ve been following the use of pesticides in Natural Areas. At present, four pesticides are mainly used by the Natural Areas Program (NAP): Glyphosate (trade-names Roundup or Aquamaster); Triclopyr (Garlon and its variants); … Continue reading
Pesticides in San Francisco’s Natural Areas: Rising Volumes
Some months ago, we had written about San Francisco’s Natural Areas Program and its escalating pesticide use. The graph below shows the number of applications of pesticides in the years from 2008-2011. The San Francisco Forest Alliance, an organization dedicated … Continue reading
Posted in Herbicides, Natural areas Program
Tagged aquamaster, Garlon, glyphosate, herbicide, imazapyr, Natural Areas Program, pesticide, Roundup
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Why Low Dose Pesticides are Still Hazards
When we speak up against the Natural Area Program’s frequent pesticide use, its supporters frequently tell us that – compared with say commercial agriculture – the Natural Areas Program (NAP) uses small amounts of toxic chemicals. “The dose makes the … Continue reading
Posted in Herbicides, Natural areas Program
Tagged endocrine disruptors, herbicide, native plants, nativism, Natural Areas Program, toxic
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Pine Lake with Pollution and Pesticides
Someone sent us a note, recently. “There was a sign up at Pine Lake today warning people that the water was polluted!” it said. And here is the picture attached: “All around the lake, walkers were talking about the NAP … Continue reading
Posted in Herbicides, nativism, Natural areas Program
Tagged aminopyralid, aquamaster, glyphosate, herbicide, Milestone VM, Natural Areas Program, Pine Lake
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San Francisco Natural Areas and Escalating Pesticide Use
We spent a couple of hours, the other day, in the beautiful McLaren Lodge, leafing through a thick binder of pesticide reports for the San Francisco Rec and Park Department. It was so thick in part because it contained a … Continue reading
Happy New Year, with Pyrotechnics and Pesticides
Last night, we went to watch the fireworks from Twin Peaks as the year turned over. It was a clear night, despite a little fog earlier on. The hill was crowded with cars and buzzing with anticipation. People jogged or … Continue reading
Posted in Herbicides, nativism, Natural areas Program
Tagged fireworks, herbicide, imazapyr, nativism, Natural Areas Program, New Year, Roundup, Twin Peaks
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‘Tis the Season… for Poisons on Twin Peaks
And when is it not, actually? Maybe this could be called the Santa Claus mix? The old formula – Glyphosate and Imazapyr, being used against “Road brush” whatever that is, and erhata grass. It’s scheduled for Dec 19-23, 2011. Pesticides … Continue reading
The San Francisco Forest Alliance
We’ve been critical of the so-called “Natural” areas program (or officially, the Significant Natural Resource Areas Plan) that covers some 1100 acres across 32 separate parks in San Francisco. While the idea of a Natural Area is appealing (as it … Continue reading
Posted in Environment, eucalyptus, Herbicides, Herbicides: Roundup, Garlon, nativism, Natural areas Program
Tagged birds, habitat, herbicide, native plants, nativism, Natural Areas Program, san francisco, trees, wildlife
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Glen Canyon Park: Pesticides and Habitat Removal
It’s that time of the year: Habitat removal time. In Glen Canyon Park, bushes and small trees that provide an impenetrable thicket for birds and animals to take cover are now becoming a lot more penetrable… … and bright-berried bushes, … Continue reading
Posted in Environment, Herbicides, Natural areas Program
Tagged Glen Canyon Park, glyphosate, imazapyr, mount sutro, Sutro Forest
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SNRAMP, Pesticides, and Mt Davidson
It’s not just Twin Peaks and Glen Canyon and McLaren Park and Stern Grove. Here are some recent pictures we received of pesticide use on Mt Davidson. It’s the old favorites, Aquamaster (glyphosate) and Polaris (Imazapyr). Coming soon to one … Continue reading
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Tagged aquamaster, glyphosate, habitat, herbicide, imazapyr, Mt Davidson, polaris
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SF Natural Areas Program: Imazapyr, Glyphosate Pesticides at McLaren Park
It looks like the SF NAP is using a lot of Imazapyr since San Francisco’s Department of the Environment approved it earlier this year. We’ve seen signs on Twin Peaks, in Glen Canyon, at Stern Grove. Now someone has sent … Continue reading
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San Francisco’s Natural Areas: The Many Mistakes in the Draft EIR
We’ve posted several times recently about the San Francisco Natural Areas Program. About the overall program: Why San Francisco’s Natural Areas Are — Unnatural About trees to be felled: Destroying the Trees of San Francisco About pesticide use: Toxic and … Continue reading
San Francisco Natural Area’s Pesticide Violations
As we noted in our previous post, the San Francisco Natural Areas Program seems to be using increasing amounts of toxic pesticides. From time to time, we’ve posted information here about pesticide use in the Natural Areas Program (NAP) lands. … Continue reading
Natural Areas Program’s Pesticides: Toxic and Toxic-er
It’s no surprise that people are beginning to associate San Francisco’s Natural Areas Program with pesticides. It’s been using them (if the city’s records are accurate) at an increasing rate. In 2009, it applied Garlon 16 times; in 2010, it … Continue reading
Mount Sutro Forest That Was 