😃 Good morning lovely people. It has been a month and a half since I sent in my new FOIA request for pesticide information from three of our national parks.
I asked for six things:
1) Read-only access to all the _public_ information contained in the PUPS databases for those parks
2) All and complete PUPS database records filed under each Park for the year 2019 whether or not the chemical application was in the park or outside its physical boundaries.
3) Total number of PUPS database records for each park for the year 2019 regardless of whether the material within the entry is designated “private”, “nonpub”, “nonpublic” or non-public.
4) All database heading classification/categories for any and all pesticide database records particularly any in the PUPS database for each of these Parks
5) Cicely Muldoon’s job description as superintendent of Yosemite and the date it was signed or authorized.
The current Sequoia superintendent’s job description and current Everglades superintendent’s job description as well.
They have just updated me that the department of interior has forwarded it to the national parks (nps)
I had to laugh at a recent post on X
Dicamba in My Bloomers
By Someone Who Didn’t Sign Up For This
I planted marigolds with grace,
A bit of mint, a hint of lace.
My soil was sweet, my rows were green,
Dicamba you are very mean.
It curled my kale, it bruised my thyme,
It trespassed like a perfect crime.
Then OMG! I screamed in gloom.
It settled in the bloomers’ too!
My roses frowned, my bees got lost,
My parsley died at tragic cost.
The EPA said, “A OK”
And now my garden’s in decay.
What once was cotton soft and pure
Now smells like herbicide couture.
Bayer peeks behind inveigled veil,
While farmers file their third appeal.
I hung my knickers on the line,
The drift came in, said “Now your mine.”
So if you see me running fast,
It’s not for sport. It’s drifting gas.
Oh Dicamba, you slimy sneak,
You turned my bloomers into bleak.
But mark my word I shan’t forget
I’m not done protesting yet.
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The future for our children….
Child Care IPM
Spring Newsletter
Quoted:
May 2025
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https://content.govdelivery.com/accounts/CADPR/bulletins/3bcc274
Look at the pictures and think!
Look at the money involved and think.
This targeted at our children! By our california department of pesticide _regulation_. You know; the ones that are _supposed_ to be on our side — not tools of the pesticide industry.
1 Nowhere is a non-chemical control method encouraged.
2 Let’s be sure to _remove_ those spiders and obviously any bees.
3 Your IPM coordinator is your friend.😄
4 And do you know what your county vector coordinator will do?
This is a big new system in our California pesticide _regulation_ system (cdpr).
They _used_ to be on our side. This looks like a Monsanto public relations brochure. california department of pesticide regulation seems to be working very closely with the IPM monstrosity that is corrupting our national parks and taking over everywhere. And also wants to be _solely_ in charge of toxifying our/your child’s Public School.
Under this new “IPM management” the cdpr has:
1) removed the ability to download certain chemical databases
2) “Fixed” other databases so that they are corrupted and are essentially unusable.
3) combined mutually exclusive chemicals with entirely different properties under a single numerical code! This eliminates effective tracking of different chemical properties and effects.
God help us all.
We absolutely cannot and should not depend on the government to live our lives for us. We must take responsibility for various aspects of our lives such as basic security, medical care, food choices, etc.
At the same time there are situations that are far beyond individual control such as international relationships, larger environmental issues, and large scale societal conditions. Because the government is not designed to act in each of our best interest we must learn to be kind, gentle, but firm with respect to the things we believe are in our individual best interests. Allowing the government to be the sole arbiter of chemical information is most outlandish.
We must have access, free access, to the huge numbers of proprietary compounds that are being sprayed over large areas of the United States and invading our healthcare and food supplies. We must have access to this information. I am fine with companies having proprietary information – but not if it’s being used on more than 400 acres or being fed to more than 50 people. And certainly not if it’s done on millions of acres and without their permission.
The government has illustrated many hundreds (thousands?) of times that it simply cannot be relied on to be the sole arbiter of information that impacts our lives. We must be allowed to have access to the full story of environmentally damaging chemicals being produced and developed. In addition, we need to create non-toxic zones that are absolutely exempt from chemical industry manipulations and untruths.
This doesn’t simply affect us, it also affects our native animals.
The abuse of animals by our pesticide industry is another reason why I am closing this OTNP post by sharing a post I saw recently asking for better treatment of animals in our food production industry.
Sign the petition “Broken Cage-Free Promises: Demand Transparency Now!” and wanted to see if you could help by adding your name.
We need more support. You can read more and sign the petition here:
- Broken Cage-Free Promises: Demand Transparency Now!
https://chng.it/W5fPXRMsDt
In conclusion:
The world is not discreet units of:
1) CO2 production
2) micro plastics
3) forever chemicals
4) pesticide use
5) animal abuse
6) hatred of one political party or another
7) secret government programs and data
All of the above items (and more) flow together through the pipeline of information. In just the past 2 months I have seen a huge (100x) improvement in accessing governmental databases. Yes: there are still huge problems as well, but I believe information is one of the most critical things directly impacting the seven items above. I believe that hiding _public_ documents that would/could provide information about any of the seven is not an accidental oversight.
I call on the sierra club –
the audubon society –
and the world wildlife fund to release the FOIA records that they have obtained and hoarded over the decades they have been failing our native wildlife.
And I would be grateful if _you_ would do the three easy steps https://www.puravidaaquatic.com/wordpress/just-three-easy-steps/ to encourage these environmental groups to start being environmental groups again.
Stop expecting political parties to do the work (or even have the same point of view) that the “environmental groups” _claim_ to have and be doing.
If you want to blame _anyone_ for the state of our wilderness let’s start with the groups that have claimed for 60 Tears to be working for the environment, our native animals, and you.
Ask them to stop hoarding their FOIA data. Ask them to put it _in writing_ that they are not taking any money from the pesticide industry, or the forestry industry, or the mining industry to hide the destruction.
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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