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Tag Archives: herbicide
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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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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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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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
Posted in Herbicides, Natural areas Program
Tagged aquamaster, glyphosate, habitat, herbicide, imazapyr, Mt Davidson, polaris
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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
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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Garlon, Natural Areas, and the City
San Francisco’s Department of the Environment (SF DOE) is our second line of protection against chemicals after the EPA; it regulates the use of pesticides on all city properties. We attended their monthly meeting yesterday, mainly because Lisa Wayne, the … Continue reading
Posted in Environment, Herbicides, nativism
Tagged Garlon, Glen Canyon, herbicide, native plants, nativism, Natural Areas Program
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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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Report: UCSF’s EIR Scoping Meeting, Jan 2011
Last evening, UCSF held its scoping meeting for the Environmental Impact Report (EIR). They plan to finish the Draft EIR in spring, in time to start felling trees on the South Ridge (above Forest Knolls neighborhood) by September 2011. This … Continue reading
Posted in Meetings, Mount Sutro Stewards, UCSF, Uncategorized
Tagged EIR, Environmental Impact Report, herbicide, mount sutro, mt sutro stewards, UCSF
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Monsanto, Blackwater, Pesticides, and Spies
Someone sent me a link to an interesting article about Blackwater, the well-known defense contracting firm in the Iraq war (now called Xe Services LLC). They’ve diversified into corporate Intelligence. Said The Nation article by Jeremy Scahill: “Over the past … Continue reading
Posted in Environment, Herbicides, Mt Sutro Cloud Forest, Neighborhood impact, UCSF
Tagged EPA, herbicide, Monsanto, mt sutro stewards, pesticide
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Protecting Mount Sutro Cloud Forest Helps Biodiversity
We’d like to put Mt Sutro Cloud Forest in the context of the bio-diversity in the Western part of San Francisco. This is an 80-acre forest (including both the UCSF portion and the Interior Green Belt). That’s fairly large for … Continue reading
Posted in Environment, eucalyptus, Herbicides, Maps, Mt Sutro Cloud Forest, UCSF
Tagged cloud forest, habitat, herbicide, san francisco, Sutro Forest
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Garlon in Our Watershed
Garlon is one of the two pesticides that UCSF proposed to use to prevent re-sprouting of felled eucalyptus, blackberry and vines. It is regularly used on Twin Peaks, one of the highest points in the city. We should mention that … Continue reading
Posted in Environment, eucalyptus, Herbicides, Herbicides: Roundup, Garlon, nativism
Tagged Garlon, herbicide, native plants, nativism, Sutro Forest, Twin Peaks
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Sutro Forest 2010-2011: UCSF Meeting update
UCSF’s meeting was intended to inform the neighbors about the reasons for the withdrawal of the FEMA application; reaffirm their commitment to a safe, healthy, beautiful and usable forest; and lay out next steps. Barbara French opened the meeting with … Continue reading
Nativism vs the Environment
When most people think of preserving natural areas, they envision saving green growing things from encroachment by parking lots and housing development. Nativists focus on a different agenda – removing non-native plants and substituting natives. What’s wrong with that? Several … Continue reading
Posted in Environment, Herbicides, Herbicides: Roundup, Garlon, nativism
Tagged eucalyptus, eucalyptus myths, herbicide, native plants, nativism, trees, wildlife
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Mount Sutro Forest That Was 