I have just made an excellent contact at
Wildlife Diversity Program
California Department of Fish & Wildlife
They say that they will forward emails supporting the protection of bumblebees to the committee as part of the official record. I am not going to put their contact out on the web. But if you would care to email any support at all for the bumblebees to me (if it’s kind and at all reasonable) I will forward it
Additionally, they say that
there will be several opportunities for public comment during Fish & Game Commission meetings when CDFW provides the status review to the Commission and they consider it (2 separate meetings).
I will try to get them to send me a notification when those opportunities for public response are made and will edit below that information.
The best to everyone.
Lawsuit Seeks Endangered Species Act Protection Decisions for American Bumblebee, Three Other BeesCenter for Biological Diversity v. U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service Docket number(s): 4:24-cv-00183 Court/Admin Entity: D. Ariz.
“American bumblebees — Once among the most common and widespread bumblebees, American bumblebees were found in open areas across all of the lower 48 states except Washington. After a severe decline starting in the 2000s, this iconic bumblebee has disappeared from at least eight states” biologicaldiversity.org/w/news/press-releases/lawsuit-seeks-endangered-species-act-protection-decisions-for-american-bumblebee-three-other-bees-2024-04-01/#:~:text=American%20bumblebees%20%E2%80%94…Oh we don’t have enough resources to do our job boohoohoo. Bumblebee decline didn’t come out of nowhere. It didn’t happen yesterday. Just like the National Park service taking a year to look up pesticide information.
They cannot be so ignorant and clueless that they had no expectation that requests to protect our bees or to find out what toxins are being sprayed would be made in this day and age.
The CBD had to sue the “service” for the information that the u.s. fish & wildlife service was legally _required_ to provide. Yet the nps and us fish and wildlife claim that it just takes too much effort from them. Crying big crocodile tears: they would if they just had more money … to pay executive salaries. Your tax money funds the lawyers for the us fish and wildlife services lawbreaking. Just like FOIA there are no penalties.
Our tired, old, legacy environmental groups (sierra club, audubon, and world wildlife fund have been complicit with this behavior for decades. Our tired old legacy environmental groups (OTOLEG😀) have been pesticide enablers for 60 years. It is time to put your action where your mouth is. Three easy things.
How much do these supervisors, managers, superintendent’s make? How much is their budget? I get wonderful, _helpful_, and virtually immediate responses from California Fish And Game, (who; by the way are working to put several bumblebee species on California’s endangered species list) California Department Of Pesticide Regulation, the Center For Biological Diversity, and several agriculture commissioners. These people who care and who do their best. I do not get decent responses from (OTOLEG😀) Just like sierra club and audubon senior staff, the us fish and wildlife service and the national park service seem to have the same senior staff and management problems that Boeing has. What do you think those problems are?
A bird double century! 😀 And if you don’t know what a double century is: 100 miles on a bicycle is often referred to as a century. There are two, three, and even four hundred mile events. Centuries and doubles usually within 17 hours, triple and quad within 24 hours. And then there is Race Across America RAAM. Holy frack! Cycling is fun and these birds are awesome.
As the title above says: We _have_ to create safe zones. That is one of the reasons I started this #_OTNP project. I initially thought it would be very hard. But I must admit that I thought it would be a tiny bit easier than the sierra club, and our national park administrators have chosen to make it. 😀 https://www.puravidaaquatic.com/wordpress/why-i-started-this/
I believe that safe zones from pesticide use are critical to the environment and our own ability to survive on this planet. It is not as sexy as climate change. It is not as sexy as going to Mars. It is not as sexy as buying a new electric car. Worrying about chemical structures and chemical names and the chemicals making up adjuvants and pesticides is not sexy.
It is also not easy. Yes, I am reusing pictures. They seemed appropriate, and I have been worrying about these other (non-sexy😀) things!
What _is_ easy, is for some of my readers here to actively participate in three little easy steps to do. I am quite sure I can’t do this alone and that I need the assistance of _you_, and _all_ our so-called “environmental” groups.
I believe that a mean little, wildly efficient carnivore, that eats its prey alive, is _beautiful_ and desperately needs your help. Help in virtually the same way your children do.
In the last two decades America’s pesticide use rate has increased 500%.
If you are a parent, one of the most important things you can possibly do for your child is provide them with not more, but less pesticides in their world. If you care about your child at all, you must care about _their_ children, whom they will love just as much as you love them now. I believe that all of the Christmas /Hanukkah /Islamic /Kwanzaa /holiday presents _combined_ cannot come close to equaling a world for them with pesticide safe zones. Would that not be the best present of all time!
We need pesticide safe zones that have not been heavily sprayed with the latest greatest biocide. Zones that have the biodiversity that we still have today. Biodiversity that is less than we had yesterday but more than if we continue to let the pesticide industry rule as they have.
We should not be spending the time and effort on banning individual pesticides, individual classes of chemicals, or individual products until the next one comes along. Our national parks _should_ have been those safe zones; they are not. Instead, they are the personal playgrounds of the large pesticide producers.
We can reacquire _Our_ National Parks as safe zones; but only if we encourage our environmental groups to be environmental groups again.
If you think that that is even remotely a good idea.
If you care about our children.
then you must help acquire them.
ProPublica is an interesting publication and one of their current projects identified a group of “connected political nonprofits — with names like American Breast Cancer Coalition and National Coalition for Disabled Veterans — that appear to be funneling more than 90% of donations to fundraisers.”
I highly recommend that you do not continue to waste money contributing to organizations simply because their name sounds wonderful, or their name has been active in the past, or they have a particularly good advertising department.
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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
IN REPLY REFER TO: DOI-NPS-2024-000098 Oh a month ago I sent an email asking if there was any information on my FOIA request. I have not received any response back, and so I am worried that with all the fun political stuff going on, your office may be somewhat overwhelmed 😀. I hope things have slowed down a bit; or maybe it was misplaced? Hope you are well. www.puravidaaquatic.com/www.puravidaaquatics.com/ 310-429-8477
On Mon, Jul 1, 2024, 8:00 AM VidaAquatic <vidaaquatic@gmail.com> wrote:
> Good morning Erica, I hope you are well this week! I believe that I was > promised information on my concerns by the end of last December (2023) Was > that date in error? I have not received anything as of the end of June > 2024. Is there an update on when I might receive any information? > > The best to you. > Robert Lloyd > > www.puravidaaquatic.com/ > > On Thu, Dec 21, 2023, 3:06 AM Beckett, Erica L < > erica_beckett@contractor.nps.gov> wrote: > >> Good Morning, >> >> Please attached. >> >> Sincerely, >> NPS FOIA Office >> >> >> >
