VidaAquatic

PhD. Microbiology: genetics. water biology, organic garden, native wetland plants, wildlife, insects, and crustaceans.

#_OTNP
Non-chemical pond maintenance

[VidaAquatic @VidaAquatic]

I really like
1) a good beer.
2) biology.
3) am a microbiologist and can brew a _good_ beer.
4) non-chemical water features.
5) cycled a triple century 😮
6) living with the world rather than against.
7) #_otnp
8) #ChemFreeZones
9)https://t.co/iGJzXivY5H…
10) best 2 U all

[VidaAquatic @VidaAquatic]

I have validated the numbers and am giving a talk on the Mother Jones article for our Sierra Club Santa Margarita group general meeting on September 12th in Temecula California. It's not only about glyphosate, it's also about the 17 other herbicides over even more acreage.

[GMWatch @GMWatch]

Native American Leaders Denounce Record Glyphosate Spraying on National Forests. “It’s kind of like killing our tribe again.” https://t.co/oM8WjoP4R3

[GMO/Toxin Free USA @GMOFreeUSA]

“We’re seeing all of these sites everywhere we go are not having just one drift event; they’re having multiple drift events,” Kim Erndt-Pitcher, PRN’s Director of Ecological Health, told the Tribune. “There’s really not much difference between exposure at a site that’s 110 feet away and one that’s 3,000 feet away.” https://t.co/65U5q9bcYT

[VidaAquatic @VidaAquatic]

@WLDdefense True

[VidaAquatic @VidaAquatic]

@lightsout4bird In California The act is actually used against endangered species.

Water companies hire brand new college biologists to find endangered species. They think they're helping

But then the companies spray herbicides there to avoid dealing with the animals around their reservoirs.

[VidaAquatic @VidaAquatic]

The California department of pesticide "regulation" CDPR has a brand new code for designating the active ingredient of a pesticide usually correlated with a chemical abstract society number it is ...

"-2" active ingredient "AI is confidential."

Awesome.

[VidaAquatic @VidaAquatic]

@EnviroAction @EnvAm Or strychnine

Mother Jones (more of the story)
https://t.co/TvBCb32VCG

[VidaAquatic @VidaAquatic]

@kinek_kirin @Nathan_Donley Glad... you think so. Bet you're smart enough to come up with a better one.😀

[VidaAquatic @VidaAquatic]

@Nathan_Donley Or any of our endangered animals. Mother Jones glyphosate in our forests... doesn't even mention the 17 other herbicides that were used in addition to chemicals like strychnine.

[VidaAquatic @VidaAquatic]

@kinek_kirin @Nathan_Donley The solution to pollution is dilution 😀
You're right, most of this is under the Km for the enzymes. But I'll stop worrying and fighting when they actually know what those enzymes are or do _any_ decent work on the toxicity of pesticide combinations.
#ChemFreeZones

[VidaAquatic @VidaAquatic]

@againstmonsanto Mother Jones article on Monsanto in our forests.
We Are Bombarding America’s Forests With Roundup – Mother Jones https://t.co/iE3sdFOsBL

More of the story.
https://t.co/TvBCb32VCG

[VidaAquatic @VidaAquatic]

And then they will spray glyphosate. Google: Mother Jones glyphosate Forests.

#ChemFreeZones

[lights out for migrating birds @lightsout4bird]

https://t.co/6vwQy5RNvE

[VidaAquatic @VidaAquatic]

@rfhirschfeld @PrairieRivers Yeah! keep your damn kids away from my herbicides! Who needs public schools near Farm kids anyway. The kids should all be trained (homeschooled) by people just like
Scott and we'd all have a better life.

[VidaAquatic @VidaAquatic]

@GMOFreeUSA It is not just a glyphosate!

It's all the "inert" chemicals.
The adjuvants
And the other herbicides, insecticides, and the fungicides that are also sprayed. Our Toxic National Parks #_OTNP
https://t.co/0ZRe83qQOd

[GMO/Toxin Free USA @GMOFreeUSA]

A Mother Jones investigation found that the U.S. Forest Service (USFS), an agency within the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA), has been spraying massive amounts of toxic glyphosate herbicide on forests across the United States.

Mother Jones wrote, "While glyphosate is more well-known for its use in agriculture, its fastest-growing use in California—where our investigation analyzed more than 5 million state pesticide records—is on forestlands. Private timber companies and the USFS have been dousing hundreds of thousands of acres of the state’s forests in the herbicide, especially areas affected by wildfires.”

Why is the USFS dousing forestland with a carcinogenic herbicide?

The USFS claims that spraying glyphosate is the easiest and least expensive way to help conifers regrow after wildfires. Pine needle conifers aren’t affected by glyphosate in the same way as other plants. Blanketing forestland with glyphosate kills everything but the conifer trees. This helps the agency meet its desired forest density for future timber sales, according to hundreds of pages of USFS documents reviewed in Mother Jones’ investigation.

In 2025, President Trump issued an executive order for the USFS to increase timber sales by 25%. In 2026, Trump issued an executive order calling for an increase in the domestic production of glyphosate to help Bayer-Monsanto. While these presidential actions may benefit Trump’s allies, the private timber industry and Bayer-Monsanto, they only bring increased risk of disease to Americans and destroy the vital biodiversity of nature.

Locals living near the sprayed areas are livid and have been speaking out. EVERYONE should be angry. The spraying of glyphosate on forestland is not acceptable and the practice must cease.

Tell the White House and Congress to direct the USFS to stop spraying glyphosate, or any other toxic synthetic herbicide for that matter, on national forestland.

Make your voice heard today! Sign and share the petition: https://t.co/9OjFIcxSTJ

[VidaAquatic @VidaAquatic]

"These rules take the public out of public lands,” the same way California department of pesticide regulation takes " public" out of "public" documents.
There is no legal penalty for _willfully_ blocking a freedom of information request 😀

[WildLands Defense @WLDdefense]

Corrupt Karen Budd-Falen's Grazing Reg gutting: "These rules take the public out of public lands,” … “In order to protest, you have to be a permit holder. They’re openly saying we want to sterilize the landscape of wildlife to make room for livestock".
https://t.co/0uQY5dyLRd

[Nathan Donley @Nathan_Donley]

This administration is blocking our attempt to identify exactly who crafted and lobbied for Trump's disastrous Executive Order on glyphosate production

So we're suing

The truth needs to come out

https://t.co/rnre106G1k

[VidaAquatic @VidaAquatic]

Nearly 300 studies link the pesticide chlorpyrifos to multi-organ damage https://t.co/aGFOdbLIAt

[Nathan Donley @Nathan_Donley]

Atrazine, the most widespread pesticide water contaminant in the USA, still has no safety threshold identified under the Clean Water Act

This hamstrings one of our most effective laws to get poisons out of our rivers, lakes and streams

Time to sue

https://t.co/yzRLOIv5rd

[VidaAquatic @VidaAquatic]

@alikat747 @MotherJones @l_menz @CaliforniaDFW Roundup is the least of your worries

The California department of pesticide regulation (cdpr) refuses to give me pesticide breakdown information

Also National parks do not have to report pesticide usage to the state because they are federal.

Our Toxic National Parks #_OTNP

[Give A Shit About Nature @giveashitnature]

"All natural" essential oil pesticides have been widely documented as toxic to bees.

Oregano, thyme, and clove oil are confirmed lethal to honeybees on contact in peer-reviewed testing.

Oregano oil is particularly dangerous because bees don't avoid the treated plant, they walk right onto it and die.

Essential oils are concentrated plant defense compounds. Plants evolved them to kill insects. The "natural" label tells you the molecule's origin, not its safety.

Worse, the EPA exempts most essential oil pesticides from standard toxicity testing under FIFRA 25(b). The label can claim "pollinator-friendly" without ever being tested.

If you wouldn't pour it directly on a bee, don't spray it on the flower a bee is about to land on. Pull pests off by hand, use a strong jet of water, and build a yard full of pest predators that do this for free.