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OTNP May 2025
Good morning my friends.
This month I would like to remind everyone of the anniversary of the passing of Rachel Carson,

Jeanne Yacoubou, MS 🌎 ⏳ (@jeanneyacoubou) posted at 2:12 PM on Mon, Apr 14, 2025:
On the anniversary of the passing of Rachel Carson, 4/14/64, we have much to be thankful for. Her landmark book, _Silent Spring_, launched the modern environmental movement. To honor her memory, here’s a wonderful biopic: https://t.co/LEZem0fDpO #pesticides #climatecrisis
(https://x.com/jeanneyacoubou/status/1911890352765882665?t=IB0vKYtgnbL5wG8shKuIpA&s=03)
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https://chng.it/9Dj4vKwbK5

Ask our environmental organizations to provide basic information on what pesticides the national parks are spraying.

I love biology. I am absolutely horrified that there is not the smallest bit of land in all of America that cannot legally be sprayed with the latest greatest toxins.

We _must_ generate safe zones.
We _must_ create plots of land that cannot be sprayed with all manner of toxic chemicals.

These areas could have and should have been our national parks. But instead our toxic national parks are toxic. And they are hiding their large scale pesticide use.

Enough! Our Toxic National Parks #_OTNP, are simply pesticide enablers.
https://www.puravidaaquatic.com/wordpress/why-i-started-this/

Most people have no idea of the tonnage sprayed on this country as “Inactive ingredients” or “proprietary” ingredients.

What do you think?

If it’s a big secret, should it really be sprayed on literally millions of acres of public land?

This is literally why we have forever chemicals now contaminating our environment along with pesticides and other toxic substances.

The manufacturers have gotten away too long with claiming that they are careful, they study these secret ingredients carefully, for all of our good “it must be kept secret”

Big business is really good at secrets but the only good is….

Is the toxicity _they_ get to hide from us.

GMWatch (@GMWatch) posted at 1:02 PM on Tue, Apr 15, 2025:
Syngenta moving to settle thousands of lawsuits claiming paraquat causes Parkinson’s disease. Internal documents show Syngenta was long aware of evidence paraquat could cause Parkinson’s, and secretly sought to influence research to counter that evidence.
https://t.co/qdo44ApqYI
(https://x.com/GMWatch/status/1912235029414961549?t=afHJjXP45S1b5RbiVMxF3Q&s=03)
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And even though the post below is from Europe the mechanism of industry PR strategies is illuminating.

Prof Alex Ford (@DrAlexFord) posted at 0:10 AM on Mon, Apr 07, 2025:
Water industry strategies to manufacture doubt and deflect blame for sewage pollution in England | Nature Water https://t.co/Y9bfPMrAS9
(https://x.com/DrAlexFord/status/1909141755041308946?t=elzUaybLn648K21OqJU3Zw&s=03)
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VidaAquatic (@VidaAquatic) posted at 3:45 PM on Wed, Apr 23, 2025:

My friends it is not just the forever chemicals!  It is the thousands and thousands of completely unregulated and untested adjuvants sprayed mainly with poorly tested pesticides —

https://t.co/uyI95bgEOc

(https://x.com/VidaAquatic/status/1915175140687786194?t=ZlcV4JCYm87pLL99Hg0vCA&s=03)

even on _organic_ produce.

WOW

_You_ can do something about this. _You_ can  encourage our environmental groups to be environmental groups again in three easy steps.

Just three easy steps

The very best to you all

For past OTNP (#_OTNP on X) issues.
https://www.puravidaaquatic.com/wordpress/past-ourtoxicnationalparks-posts/

But you may want to start here. www.puravidaaquatic.com/wordpress/why-i-started-this/

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

The contagious, fatal illness in deer, elk and moose must be taken seriously, say experts as it takes hold in the US and reaches other countries. While it has not infected humans yet, the risk is growing

Source: ‘Don’t call it zombie deer disease’: scientists warn of ‘global crisis’ as infections spread across the US

Oh my! Search my blog site up in the right hand corner for others of my posts along this line

Good morning lovely people.

In Conan O’Brien’s acceptance of the 26th Mark Twain Prize he said: “Accepting an award named after Mark Twain is a responsibility. One cannot invoke Twain without understanding who he was and what he stood for.”
….
“Twain wrote, ‘Patriotism is supporting your country all of the time and your government when it deserves it.”

https://chng.it/9Dj4vKwbK5

Please ask our environmental organizations to provide basic information on what pesticides Our [toxic!] national parks are spraying.

How many of you remember my gold spotted oak borer post (https://www.puravidaaquatic.com/wordpress/dirt/) where I criticized California’s use of carbaryl in our oak forests?

Well just a current update
Quote:

Judge orders wildlife service to do more to protect imperiled species from pesticides

A federal judge ruled late Wednesday that the US Fish and Wildlife Service (FWS) must finish assessing the impact of five pesticides on endangered and threatened species, and that the agency had violated federal law with its “unreasonable” delay in completing the required analyses.

The five chemicals include the weed killers atrazine and simazine, and the insecticides chlorpyrifos, diazinon, and carbaryl.
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Carbaryl

The lawsuit above was brought by the Center for Biological Diversity. Thank goodness there are still some people who are thinking in the world.

And why does the _Canadian_ Sierra Club have a big section on pesticides? The US Sierra Club strategically has a page (supposedly) but the link is broken and has been for over a year even though I’ve notified them of it many times. I would never think that they are taking mega donations from the pesticide manufacturers.

91% of the 1,800 animals and plants supposedly protected by the Endangered Species Act were found to be _likely_ harmed by carbaryl. _91%_ but hey it breaks down quickly. Well _not_. …. So it’s okay.
Well _not_.

It is not just Trump. Somehow it started in California under Biden. And I know many of you don’t want to hear that, but the pesticide industry has both sides in its pocket, as well as our national park bureaucracy, and a few of our big environmental organizations as well.

Carbaryl, and many other pesticides that aren’t even on this current lawsuit are just not good for our oak forests or Our Toxic National Parks.
The best to you all!

For past OTNP (#_OTNP on X) issues.
https://www.puravidaaquatic.com/wordpress/past-ourtoxicnationalparks-posts/

But you may want to start here. www.puravidaaquatic.com/wordpress/why-i-started-this/

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

Source:https://scitechdaily.com/what-if-the-best-way-to-save-nature-is-to-let-it-change/

Too much of our paternalistic manipulation of mother nature causes more problems than it solves. The term invasive has become a political football often used to promote profit over nature.
The logging industry screams bloody murder over invasive insects because it damages their profit not that it’s bad for nature or the birds that would have been able to eat those “invasive” insects

I decided to start out this particular OTNP post with a small public service announcement. This has fortunately not happened to me but I think everybody here would gain a lot from knowing about what can happen if _you_ dial the wrong phone number scam.

You only have to listen to the first couple of minutes to get the point, but the whole thing is very interesting.

I have been posting on X a lot as @VidaAquatic and so many people say that the climate is terrible the world’s ending there’s nothing to do. I wish to encourage all of those people to work towards accomplishing a goal. A goal to hold our pseudo-environmental groups accountable

Even if one believes that there really is nothing to be done, please support anything trying to accomplish something. One would have _nothing_ to lose.

Why in the world wouldn’t anybody want to acquire the information from our national parks of the pesticide use there. There is _no_ downside to data unless your goal is to actually hide, lie, and manipulate for your own end.
https://chng.it/9Dj4vKwbK5
Petition simply asking for our environmental organizations to provide basic information on what the parks are spraying.

Remember when computer programs were sooooo buggy? So people started joking that all the weird behavior was not a bug but was actually a “feature”? Today: pesticides are not dangerous toxins in our food at all😲 They are not poisoning our native animals😲 …. They are just added nutrients for everyone to enjoy!

America’s CDC to this day claims that mosquitoes are the cause of the microencephaly brain damage in Brazil a while back.

But the 3711 pregnant women in Columbia _with Zika!_ with _no_ microencephaly cases completely eliminates the possibility that the Brazilian brain damaged children could be from zika. Colombia: 3,177 pregnant women with Zika; no microcephaly

I commented to my hiking friend at the time several years ago: what do they do if they have a mosquito infestation? They spray more insecticides everywhere –“it is probably the pesticides.”

The next morning I read that I was wrong, _as usual_😀.

Actually they weren’t spraying insecticides all over the place, this particular State in Brazil had been adding a Monsanto linked pesticide _to_ their freaking drinking water!

Source: Report says Monsanto-linked pesticide is to blame for microcephaly outbreak – not Zika

Here is a graphic that was in a document produced by the European Center for Disease Prevention and Control (the analog of our CDC) please look at it! The red dots are micro encephaly (brain damage). Large is _Thousands_, medium is hundreds, and small is tens of cases.

The entire country and all the pregnant women are exposed to zika and mosquitoes (orange) everyday and the only place there is micro encephaly is where they were _adding a chemical mosquito toxin to the freakin drinking water_.

A while back the article/study referring to the Monsanto linked insecticide pyroproxifen came out. To be fair, the company that makes pyroproxifen is only associated with Monsanto. Pyroproxifen is reportedly not produced by Monsanto itself.

Some Neuroscientists admit to how much we don’t know about human brain development. And what kinds of chemicals other than prescribed drugs might affect it. But there are also breakdown products of pesticides. Virtually none of the pesticides produced today are adequately studied with respect to how they break down in the environment.

As I started thinking about possible breakdown products, it suddenly dawned on me that the insecticide in Brazil was likely added to chlorinated water. That started me thinking about chlorination byproducts of insecticides.

It could be that the chlorinated byproducts of pyroproxifen are more toxic to humans then the original pyroproxifen. I will bet that none of the 20,000 plus pesticides approved in the US have been studied in _chlorinated_ tap water systems. Sigh! Scientific research labs generally use pure water in studies to avoid adding contamination unknowns, but that research water is not chlorinated. So no one may ever have studied the pesticides with chlorinated tap water. And now I’m starting to wonder about UV filters on certain aquatic systems.

This entire story really, really, bothers me because I feel, that with all the ADHD, autism and neurological diseases we have today, that we have poisoned an entire generation of kids. And the pain and suffering that our unthinking behavior generates is REAL … Children of thalidomide, but hidden.

Again: none of the pesticides produced today are adequately studied with respect to how they break down in the environment. And brain damage would certainly affect our native animals. https://www.earth.com/news/crows-hold-grudges-for-up-to-17-years/

I regularly tell people that birds have a better memory than we give them credit for and that they can remember the good hotel rooms and the bad ones.

Let’s give our birds some #ChemFreeZones in our toxic national parks #_OTNP for their migrations. Let’s give all our wild animals _and even ourselves_ safe zones #ChemFreeZones to live.

I am afraid that these examples will become even more common as our use of insecticides and herbicides — and the GMOs that drive higher and higher use of these toxins, explodes.

We spray five times what we sprayed 20 years ago. There are hundreds of new chemicals and new products patented every year. We cannot continue to try and ban individual chemicals. We must create safe zones.

And the sergeant in Hill Street Blues used to tell everybody at the end of his meeting to “be safe out there”.

The best to you all!

For past OTNP (#_OTNP on X) issues.
https://www.puravidaaquatic.com/wordpress/past-ourtoxicnationalparks-posts/

But you may want to start here. www.puravidaaquatic.com/wordpress/why-i-started-this/

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

Here is where I think you should put any money you care to donate.

https://biologicaldiversity.org
Center For Biological Diversity Puts FOIA data they worked at getting _online_ in a searchable form

https://www.propublica.org/
Great investigative reporting.

https://johnmuirassociation.org/
Good work in fighting national wilderness area corrupt politicians

https://www.beyondpesticides.org/
Incredibly good data base on pesticide use.

www.theblackvault.com/documentarchive/
The BlackVault
Database of past FOIA requests by various groups.

abcbirds.org/
American bird conservancy
Much better than audubon in my opinion.

Less Than Awesome NGOs.

sierra club.
Absolutely corrupt imo. They rehide public data, hide contributors, and advertise one thing but do another. The FOIA data that they hide would benefit the environment in so many ways. Ask yourself why.

audubon
Completely negligent on reporting events and situations impacting bird health. Also re-hide environmentally important public FOIA information. Nothing but advertising about how much they do.

wwf
Definitely _not_ “helping wildlife worldwide”

The Wilderness Society
Definitely not helping native rangeland wilderness.

tnc the nature conservancy
Also corrupt and a scam. Refuse to acknowledge pesticide use on “their” “conserved” land. Many reports of reselling donated land for profit.

Useful government sites
CDPR California Department of Pesticide Regulation Pretty darn good. Databases of pesticide use by county.