{"id":6239,"date":"2025-06-28T08:47:36","date_gmt":"2025-06-28T15:47:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.puravidaaquatic.com\/wordpress\/?p=6239"},"modified":"2025-06-28T08:47:37","modified_gmt":"2025-06-28T15:47:37","slug":"otnp-july-2025","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.puravidaaquatic.com\/wordpress\/otnp-july-2025\/","title":{"rendered":"OTNP July 2025"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\ud83d\ude03 Good morning lovely people. I just sent in my new FOIA request for pesticide information from three of our national parks.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.puravidaaquatic.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/20240919_093811-scaled.jpg\" width=\"300\" \/><\/p>\n<p>I asked for six things:<\/p>\n<p>1) Read-only access to all the _public_ information contained in the PUPS databases for those parks<\/p>\n<p>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.<\/p>\n<p>3) Total number of PUPS database records for each park for the year 2019 regardless of whether the material within the entry is designated &#8220;private&#8221;, &#8220;nonpub&#8221;, &#8220;nonpublic&#8221; or non-public.<\/p>\n<p>4) All database heading classification\/categories for any and all pesticide database records particularly any in the PUPS database for each of these Parks<\/p>\n<p>5) Cicely Muldoon&#8217;s job description as superintendent of Yosemite and the date it was signed or authorized.<br \/>\nThe current Sequoia superintendent&#8217;s job description and current Everglades superintendent&#8217;s job description as well<\/p>\n<p>To minimize the chance of any of the pesticides provided in response to the above not being on my lists due to my poor spelling I am asking for:<br \/>\n6) The valid and full EPA registration numbers for all the pesticides or adjuvants approved or used in any way by these three parks for the last 6 years<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.puravidaaquatic.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/image-181.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-5562\" src=\"http:\/\/www.puravidaaquatic.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/image-181-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.puravidaaquatic.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/image-181-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.puravidaaquatic.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/image-181-1024x683.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.puravidaaquatic.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/image-181-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.puravidaaquatic.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/image-181-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/www.puravidaaquatic.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/image-181.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Please ask our environmental organizations to provide basic information on what pesticides the national parks are spraying.<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/chng.it\/9Dj4vKwbK5\">https:\/\/chng.it\/9Dj4vKwbK5<\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"wp-embedded-content\" data-secret=\"iBidYvOcIJ\"><p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.puravidaaquatic.com\/wordpress\/just-three-easy-steps\/\">Just three easy steps<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-embedded-content\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts\" security=\"restricted\" style=\"position: absolute; visibility: hidden;\" title=\"&#8220;Just three easy steps&#8221; &#8212; Permaculture Blog\" src=\"https:\/\/www.puravidaaquatic.com\/wordpress\/just-three-easy-steps\/embed\/#?secret=7rnTzVXoX9#?secret=iBidYvOcIJ\" data-secret=\"iBidYvOcIJ\" width=\"600\" height=\"338\" frameborder=\"0\" marginwidth=\"0\" marginheight=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Some of you are starting to smile because I have tried to circumvent the unfortunate &#8220;mistakes&#8221; that the nps made when the they answered my first FOIA request. The phrase &#8220;willful ignorance and strategic stupidity&#8221; comes to mind.\u00a0 _And_, since Cicely Muldoon&#8217;s office emailed me that I would have to file a FOIA to even get her job description &#8212; I did \ud83d\ude04.<\/p>\n<p>The Freedom Of Information Act actually makes it incredibly illegal that she didn&#8217;t have it on hand and online to simply email me but many people worry about bigger fish. I personally think it is _the small everyday things_ that are killing us.<\/p>\n<p>The nps answered only two (feebly) of six questions the last time. How many of these six do you think they will respond to this time?<\/p>\n<p>And people wonder why I am fine with the national park service administration getting reviewed and (polished?) lately. I am 111% behind the rangers. I am about 5% behind the administration which often works more for big industry than you\/us. And the only time the administration thinks of our endangered animals seems to be when they want to waive them in front of our faces for donations.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.puravidaaquatic.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/download.jpeg\" width=\"300\" \/><\/p>\n<p>On another subject:<br \/>\nHow many of you are worried about eating plastic? How many of you have eaten plastics, industrial soaps, and detergents lately?<br \/>\nWell, we all have eaten all the above and in rapidly growing amounts even on organic products.<\/p>\n<p>Because many industrial soaps and detergents, and liquid plastics are designated by the EPA as &#8220;inert&#8221;. These industrial products are increasingly used on crops, including organic. Many are even registered by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.omri.org\/\">OMRI<\/a> and specifically labeled as _safe_ for organic use.\ud83e\udd74<\/p>\n<p>They are sold as adjuvants, surfactants, spreader-stickers, and pesticide enhancers. Quite a few are the next generation of forever chemicals. Many are already being identified as endocrine disruptors. Some have been linked to damage to our intestinal epithelial cells. And there is _very little_ regulation, or even information on environmental breakdown, for most.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.puravidaaquatic.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/20160126_135812-300x170.png\" width=\"300\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Anybody with:<br \/>\n1 gastrointestinal issues?<br \/>\n2 IFB?<br \/>\n3 Exocrine pancreatic insufficiency (EPI)?<br \/>\n4 Gluten issues?<\/p>\n<p>Don&#8217;t worry be _Happy_. It is not even possible that we have all been poisoned by our food manufacturing system; particularly the pesticide industry right?<br \/>\nIt _must_ be our genetics.<\/p>\n<p>Many, many people try to buy organic because they realize that our farmed food is contaminated. But what they don&#8217;t realize is that while there are limitations on various pesticides there are no legal limitations on the thousands of &#8220;inert&#8221; toxins and adjuvents being sprayed on &#8220;organic&#8221; crops.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.puravidaaquatic.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/20240905_092541-scaled.jpg\" width=\"300\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The epa has designated thousands of chemicals as &#8220;inert&#8221; as of the date of this post.\u00a0 I could have done many more than the four examples below but this post is getting massively long \ud83d\ude03<\/p>\n<p>Four examples (again &#8211; designated as INERT chemicals):<\/p>\n<p>1)<br \/>\n1,4-Benzenedicarboxylic acid, polymer with 1,2-ethanediol and alpha-hydro-omega-hydroxypoly(oxy-1,2-ethanediyl)<\/p>\n<p>(polyester derivative)<\/p>\n<p>2)<br \/>\n2-propenoic acid, 2-methyl-, 2-aminoalkylester, polymer with ethyl acrylate, 2-hydroxyethyl methacrylate, polyethylene glycol methacrylate alkyl ether and polyethylene-polypropylene alkyl ether<\/p>\n<p>(An acrylic plastic)<\/p>\n<p>3)<br \/>\nPhenyl tris(trimethylsiloxy)silane<\/p>\n<p>(Industrial Soap\/detergent, likely next gen forever chemical)<\/p>\n<p>4)<br \/>\nSiloxanes and silicones, 3-aminopropyl Me, Me stearyl<\/p>\n<p>(Another Industrial Soap\/detergent, likely next gen forever chemical)<\/p>\n<p>Remember these are all designated INERT along with several thousand similar products.<br \/>\nAnd I ran these four items independently through several AI engines requesting environmental breakdown times&#8230;.<\/p>\n<p>Summary Table:<br \/>\n1) Modified PET with PEG<br \/>\nHigh (decades to centuries)<br \/>\nPEG may enhance hydrophilicity but not significantly biodegradability<\/p>\n<p>2) Complex Acrylic Copolymer<br \/>\nHigh<br \/>\nStable backbone resists degradation<\/p>\n<p>3) Phenyl Tris(trimethylsiloxy)silane Moderate to High<br \/>\nPhenyl group hinders hydrolysis<\/p>\n<p>4) Modified Silicones<br \/>\nHigh<br \/>\nFunctional groups have minimal impact on degradation<\/p>\n<p>My double checking and verification agreed with this analysis and also generated several additional comments.<\/p>\n<p>1)&#8230; &#8220;essentially non-biodegradable and can persist for hundreds of years. The breakdown primarily occurs through slow photodegradation and mechanical weathering rather than biological processes.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>3&amp;4) &#8221; Siloxanes have stable bonds between silicon, carbon and oxygen atoms, and there is perception that no microorganisms can cleave these bonds in nature.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Do you really want to be eating these?\u00a0 Do you really want our national parks to be spraying them and then hiding that information from you?<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.puravidaaquatic.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/istockphoto-627066956-612x612-1.jpg\" width=\"300\" \/><\/p>\n<p>As little as 2 years ago; close to a dozen PFAS&#8217;s were also listed under this &#8220;inert&#8221; category by the EPA.<\/p>\n<p>These chemicals are anything but &#8220;inert&#8221;. However, categorizing them as such makes it much easier on epa bureaucrats and the chemical industry.<\/p>\n<p>We must start getting basic information on the chemical problems we are spraying _everywhere_. I believe we must create chemical free zones. #ChemFreeZones.<\/p>\n<p>I believed that our _Toxic_ national parks would have been a good place to start these chemical free zones.<\/p>\n<h5>For past OTNP (#_OTNP on X) issues.<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.puravidaaquatic.com\/wordpress\/past-ourtoxicnationalparks-posts\/\">https:\/\/www.puravidaaquatic.com\/wordpress\/past-ourtoxicnationalparks-posts\/<\/a><\/h5>\n<h6>But you may want to start here. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.puravidaaquatic.com\/wordpress\/why-i-started-this\/\">www.puravidaaquatic.com\/wordpress\/why-i-started-this\/<\/a><\/h6>\n<h6>If you have received this as a forward and would like to continue receiving it please email me <a href=\"mailto: vidaaquatic@gmail.com\">&#8220;vidaaquatic@gmail.com&#8221;<\/a><br \/>\nAnd 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. 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