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Category Archives: Herbicides: Roundup, Garlon
Sierra Club Alienates its Would-be Allies
Most people think of the Sierra Club as an organization battling for trees and nature, for forested lands like the one in this picture. They believe it’s fighting to save the environment and opposing the use of pesticides and other … Continue reading
Fighting SF Bay Area Deforestation
We’ve been extremely concerned about this disastrous East Bay project – a plan to cut down up to 450,000 trees. Others are fighting back. The post below has three ways in which you can help. It’s republished with permission from … Continue reading
Posted in deforestation, eucalyptus, Herbicides: Roundup, Garlon
Tagged East Bay, environment, eucalyptus, hills conservation network
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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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Mount Sutro Forest “Management Plan” Timeline
The public comment period for the Mount Sutro Draft Environmental Impact Report (DEIR) closed on March 19th. A lot of people are saying, Now What? The bottom line: Unless the project is delayed or cancelled, tree-felling could start in mid-August … Continue reading
Bucketloads of Herbicides Coming to Sutro Forest
We’ve often praised UCSF here for keeping Mount Sutro forest pesticide free. No pesticides have been used there since 2008. We’ve said things like “This may be the last pesticide-free wild land in the city. (Thanks, UCSF!)” On the other … Continue reading
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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‘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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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
Natural areas, Pine Lake and Pesticides… Again
From time to time, readers send us information about pesticides being used in “Natural Areas.” This time, it’s Pine Lake in Stern Grove… the same place where Imazapyr was used even before it was approved by the City. (It’s called … Continue reading
Posted in Herbicides, Herbicides: Roundup, Garlon, Natural areas Program
Tagged Natural Areas Program, Roundup
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Twin Peaks, Glen Canyon, Natural Areas, and Imazapyr
We’ve been seeing the new pesticide notices up on Twin Peaks, the ones we wrote about earlier here. So today, when we saw three more (and there may have been others) we assumed they were more of the same. They … Continue reading
Posted in Herbicides, Herbicides: Roundup, Garlon, UCSF
Tagged herbicide, imazapyr, mt sutro stewards, Natural Areas Program, Twin Peaks
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Roundup, Birth defects, and the new trail in Mount Sutro Forest
The new trail connecting Stanyan (just above 17th Avenue) with Medical Center Way opened a few days ago. Though still marred by the stumps of dead trees and amputated shrubs, it provides better access from the Cole Valley side of … Continue reading
Posted in Herbicides, Herbicides: Roundup, Garlon, Mt Sutro Cloud Forest
Tagged Garlon, herbicide, Natural Areas Program, Roundup, Sutro Forest, trails
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SF NAP on Twin Peaks: Rainy Days and Roundup…
Rainy days and Roundup always make me sigh… This report is brought to you from the drenched slopes of Twin Peaks. And here’s another one… They’re putting the pesticide notices high and visible now, which is an improvement. Also, they’re … Continue reading
Posted in Herbicides, Herbicides: Roundup, Garlon, nativism
Tagged herbicide, native plants, Natural Areas Program, Roundup, Twin Peaks
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Twin Peaks and the Mission Blue Butterfly: Why it’s Still Uncertain
[THIS ARTICLE WAS WRITTEN IN APRIL 2011 AND UPDATED Feb 2012] Last year, journalists were celebrating the return of the Mission Blue butterfly to Twin Peaks. From the SF Chronicle of 7 May 2010: “Everyone comes back to San Francisco, … Continue reading
Native Plants, Oxalis and the Futility of Garlon
Some days ago, in a comment on our post responding to Jake Sigg’s defense of Garlon, Wendy Poinsot said: Garlon is effective on oxalis and other broadleaf weeds like dandelion. Who wants a park full of south african oxalis? Not … Continue reading
Posted in Herbicides: Roundup, Garlon, nativism
Tagged native plants, Natural Areas Program, oxalis
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More Garlon for Glen Canyon Park?
We’ve been observing the issue of pesticides at Glen Canyon Park at a remove; but here’s what we understand. The place falls under the Natural Areas Program (NAP), which plans to use Garlon, one of the most toxic herbicides San … Continue reading
Posted in Herbicides, Herbicides: Roundup, Garlon, nativism
Tagged Garlon, Glen Canyon, native plants, Natural Areas Program, Sutro Forest
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Glen Canyon Park and Garlon: Answering Jake Sigg
Recently, several people drew our attention to Glen Canyon and the planned spraying of Garlon 4 Ultra to kill the yellow oxalis flowers there. And someone sent in the notice seen here. Apparently, residents of areas nearby have been understandably upset … Continue reading
It’s Spring! It’s Twin Peaks! It’s toxic Garlon herbicide!
It’s spring again, it’s Garlon time! We recently published a picture taken near the reservoir. Now someone’s sent me these. This is a worker spraying Garlon 4 Ultra on Twin Peaks… wearing a protective suit — but without the required … Continue reading
Posted in Environment, Herbicides, Herbicides: Roundup, Garlon
Tagged Garlon, herbicide, Twin Peaks
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Garlon in our Reservoir?
Someone sent us this picture, taken on 20th Jan 2011 at Twin Peaks. We were surprised, even though we’ve grown accustomed to seeing notices of toxic pesticides being used all over “Natural Areas.” WHAT’S WRONG WITH THIS PICTURE? Garlon [ETA: … Continue reading
Posted in Herbicides, Herbicides: Roundup, Garlon, nativism
Tagged Garlon, Natural Areas Program, Roundup
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Bees and Blue Gum Eucalyptus and Herbicides
We saw this interesting letter to the Editor in the Pulitzer Prize winning Pt Reyes Light newspaper. It’s reproduced here with permission from the edition of 6 Jan 2011. It makes reference to the two-part article Myth of the Eucalyptus … Continue reading
Posted in eucalyptus, Herbicides, Herbicides: Roundup, Garlon
Tagged eucalyptus, trees, wildlife
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Native Plants and Pesticides: Glyphosate at Lake Merced
It was inevitable: a walk into a Native Plant area (aka Natural Areas Program areas) yielded yet another new pesticide notice. Last time, Imazapyr at Stern Grove. This time, Aquamaster at Lake Merced, targeting ludwigia (water-primrose). Aquamaster is a pesticide … Continue reading
Posted in Herbicides, Herbicides: Roundup, Garlon, nativism
Tagged native plants, Natural Areas Program, wildlife
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SF Natural Areas Program, Roundup and Birth Defects
Someone sent us a paper published May 2010 in the journal, Chemical Research in Toxicology. It linked glyphosate to birth defects in vertebrates. We’d like people who have assumed that Roundup’s problems come mainly from its surfactant POEA to take … Continue reading
Twin Peaks: Fall Weather, Roundup and Garlon
Twin Peaks in the Fall. The blaze of wildflowers in the spring is a distant memory. The fog blows in, but unlike the verdant Sutro Forest, where the trees harvest its water and the understory and duff hold in the … Continue reading
Posted in Herbicides: Roundup, Garlon, nativism
Tagged native plants, san francisco, Twin Peaks
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Wind. Fog. Mount Sutro Forest
The wind was strong this afternoon, blowing over trashcans, swishing the tops of the eucalyptus like great lace fans, swirling the fog into romantic curls. The sun was AWOL. A perfect day for a walk in San Francisco’s own cloud … Continue reading
3 Reasons Not to Use Roundup
Someone sent us a link to an article about Roundup by Caroline Cox, a scientist who leads the pesticide research at Center for Environmental Health. Titled “Why You Shouldn’t Use Roundup (Or Trust Its Labels),” it’s one of the most … Continue reading
Posted in Herbicides, Herbicides: Roundup, Garlon, Mt Sutro Cloud Forest, UCSF
Tagged Roundup
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Mount Sutro Forest That Was 