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Protection of California Red-legged Frog from Pesticides Updates on Upper San Antonio Creek Watershed Arundo Removal Project. (vcwatershed.org). Click "What's New" on the left side and scroll down to Project info. July 2009 First round of Glyphosate application pending in East End Glyphosate and Surfactant application for Arundo is due to begin soon in the watershed on the East end of the Ojai Valley. This is the same action Ventura County has taken in the Matilija watershed. For information on how to action regarding this proposal, please review our Take Action page....
Known Carcinogen being approved for use on Ventura strawberry fields? Methyl Iodide is a known carcinogenic and is being considered to fumigate agricultural lands, including strawberry fields in Ventura County. This article contains details and contact information for taking action.
March 2009 Gypsy Moth Spraying in Ojai On the morning of Saturday March 28, 2009, thugs from the California Department of Food and Agriculture showed up at the doors of residents in the Ojai Valley with a court order, armed police officers from the Sheriff Department and the California Highway Patrol, county photographers, and frightened and intimidated elders, jumped locked fences, and with a fleet of police cars and TruGreen pesticide trucks lining the road, forcibly hosed down people's homes with the insecticide DiPel. Youtube links About the spraying of Dipel in the Ojai Valley against Gypsy Moths http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h5QEgAzBFzk http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sjFVm66Oexs The California Department of Agriculture, the California Highway Patrol, and TruGreen ChemLawn forced entry onto Lynda Rader's private property and sprayed the pesticide Dipel. Many of Lynda's civil rights were violated. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EgR4Qlhv1X4&feature=channel_page Patty Pagaling, Founder of the Alliance for a Pestidice Free Ojai Valley, wrote this Letter to the Ojai Valley News, on June 26th, 2008 The Poisoning of the Watershed Continues… I moved to Matilija Canyon less than 2 years ago, to a beautiful, sacred place, and to my horror, in September 2007, the county began to spray poisons into the watershed. According to a county Product Summary Report, between September 2007 – May 2008, the Ventura County Watershed Protection District has sprayed 10,962 pounds of glyphosate (not counting the surfactant added) into the watershed. Wow! That’s a lot of poison. |
New greenhouse gas and toxin being used on farm fields in 4 states Dow Chemical is pitching a new, known toxic chemical and astonishingly greenhouse gas for agricultural use in sterilizing soils in 4 states. Read the article in full and find contacts to address this issue here.
Ground Breaking Constitution in Ecuador Ecuador's new constitution gives Nature "the right to exist, persist, maintain and regenerate its vital cycles, structure, functions and its processes in evolution" and mandates that the government "take precaution and restriction measures in all the activities that can lead to the extinction of species, the destruction of the ecosystems or the permanent alteration of the natural cycles". The right to live in a healthy and ecologically balanced environment on the basis of sustainable development is another collective right included in the constitution. It also specifies environmental protections which are deemed public interest, including the recovery of damaged natural spaces.
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