Defending the Feather River Watershed from Harm and Protecting Communities
We apologize for the AI Smokey graphic. We did not pay for it, and would much prefer to pay local artists and graphic designer for their work. However, it was too relevant and timely to not use You can click on the image above for a pdf download that you can print and post around town. Below, you can see that the amount of Glyphosate applied in CA forests has dramatically increased, despite falsified safety studies relied upon by the U.S.F.S.
Graph courtesy No Poison CA.
Click on the image above to download a printable pdf. Thanks for spreading the word!
About a dozen people showed up last week to hear the details about USFS plans for massive, unprecedented herbicide applications and logging in the Feather River watershed, and to organize and demand a halt to this assault on nature.
Following our presentation, there was a Q&A session and group discussion. There was unanimous agreement that the USFS is out of control, that its activities are threatening (rather than protecting) local communities, and that local governments and residents need to unite and demand an immediate halt to mass forest herbicide application, and if it goes forward, to establish buffer zones around communities where herbicides and mechanical logging are prohibited (as the USFS North Forks project has done for one home and the associated spring in Genesee Valley).
We discussed how “compromising” with a worldview that treats the living Earth as products to be extracted, and the natural world as an enemy, is a non-starter. Conflict can be healthy, though sometimes difficult in small communities. By avoiding conflict, and trying to make “everyone get along” this means a continuation of the dysfunctional status quo that puts communities at risk.
Upcoming community meetings will be held in Quincy and Chester, details to come…