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Oyster Bay: Firehose of Funds means a Firehose of Herbicides

Posted on May 9, 2018 by

This article is reprinted from the website Death of a Million Trees with permission and minor changes.   OYSTER BAY: A FIREHOSE OF PUBLIC FUNDING SUPPLIES A FIREHOSE OF HERBICIDES Oyster Bay is one of several East Bay Regional Parks … Continue reading →

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San Francisco “Natural Resources” Herbicide Usage Up 57% in 2017

Posted on March 6, 2018 by

We have recently analyzed the data for herbicide use in the full year 2017 for San Francisco’s so-called “Natural Resources Department” (NRD – formerly Natural Areas Program). It’s up 57% from the previous year. NRD is a department of San … Continue reading →

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Pesticides on Blackberry in Fruiting Season

Posted on September 7, 2017 by

Recently, one of our neighbors was walking on Mt Davidson. It’s the time of the year when the blackberry bushes bear fruit, to the delight of children and the public in general (and not a few animals and birds). She … Continue reading →

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Glyphosate in Glen Canyon

Posted on August 18, 2017 by

There’s increasing evidence that glyphosate – the herbicide Monsanto sells under the names Roundup and Aquamaster – is dangerous to human health, doesn’t degrade in the soil as the company claims, and is a dangerous probable carcinogen. Since SF Department … Continue reading →

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Report on San Francisco Pesticides Meeting – Next is Jan 11, 2016

Posted on January 9, 2016 by

On January 11th, 2016  the San Francisco Department of the Environment (SFDoE) will hold its Policy Committee meeting , to review the rules about which pesticides may be used on city-owned properties (the “reduced risk” list). If pesticide use in … Continue reading →

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SF’s Natural Areas Program Beats Own Pesticide Record in 2013

Posted on January 12, 2014 by

This article is adapted with permission from SutroForest.com UCSF, which owns and manages most of Mt Sutro Forest, recently decided not to use pesticides there. This may make it the only wild land in San Francisco that is reliably free … Continue reading →

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Sutro Forest Herbicide Projections: Bad News for San Francisco’s Natural Areas?

Posted on March 21, 2013 by

Our regular readers will know that we’ve been following the Natural Areas Program’s (NAP) increasing use of pesticides with some dismay. When we got the 2012 data, it was clear that pesticide use had increased by every measure. That story … Continue reading →

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