Sunset Cliffs Not So Natural Park

It's not enough to call for ending Glyphosate use because there always are other herbicides on the ready. This fight can be won, but to no benefit when they pull out Dicamba or others they have lined up. The call is for no toxics. No pesticide approach at all. Decades before more direct cancer links to Glyphosate, a surfactant in the product Roundup was linked to cancer. Glyphosate is bad enough, but it’s always used as a product with other chemicals causing synergistic reactions.The call is for an end to pesticide use. Not a "reduced use" or "occasional use”, industry speak, no legal meaning. Beware the various non-profits using that language; we’ve challenged them repeatedly. Calling for an end to pesticide use would result in their not getting hefty grants from funders who seem to want to be sure no one calls for the end to pesticide use. Most do not realize the "Invasive Species Councils" are of the pesticide industry. Many well-meaning people are drawn in because native plants sounds nice. You need to understand who's driving the push, and why. The line is, "We have to kill to bring back nature." Who decides what is "native"? Biologists not influenced by the pesticide manufacturers and the manufactured emergencies they tout have a lot to say about this. You have the opportunity to learn a great deal about this by going to the videos of events we've put on in the SF Bay Area bringing together biologists and a fire fighter, and health advocates as we work to stop deforestation which is coupled with pesticide use on and around stumps. We're losing the moisture from 10-16 inches per year fog drip from healthy Eucalyptus and Monterey Pines, a safeguarding against fires natural to the area by keeping soil wet. All in the name of removing full and healthy habitats supposedly to "bring back" "native" plants. All of this is not only damaging, but these "native plant restoration" projects are just ongoing gardening projects. Plants or insects are NOT eradicated, even if some die in the moment. What people call non-native are things which can survive degradation humans cause. They are the foundation of new and healthy full habitats. This kind of non-sensical killing-to-save not only does not work, but harms the workers, and every living thing anywhere in the larger vicinity. These herbicides translocate through soil, air, water, birds and terrestrial wildlife track the toxins and people and animals receive the toxins via inhalation, absorption, and ingestion. Please, friends, do not re-invent the wheel but use and re-use the information others of us have brought together over decades. Have house parties showing these videos of full programs of a couple hours each which give an excellent overview of what really is going on. www.dontspraycalifornia.org (click on the Wildfire pages or the Light Brown Apple Moth pages to find those videos and more). Go to milliontrees.me to get an enormous amount more on the "nativist" issues. They're killing the soil.
— February 14, 2019 2:42 p.m.