singular_me
24th July 2016, 10:33 AM
meanwhile the race war goes on... while they are attacking us and Nature from all sides,
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North American wildlands sprayed heavily with undisclosed volumes of glyphosate; scientists admit environmental impacts totally unknown
Friday, July 22, 2016 by: David Gutierrez, staff writer
(NaturalNews) Federal land managers are engaged in a reckless experiment as they spray North American wildlands with enormous quantities of herbicides without collecting any data on the effects of these practices, warned a team of international researchers from Europe, the United States, Mexico and Canada in a study published in the Journal of Applied Ecology.
The study marks the first effort to quantify herbicide use on North American wildlands.
"The numbers are much less than those for croplands, but they are astonishing," said lead author Viktoria Wagner, of Masaryk University in the Czech Republic.
The most popular herbicide used on North American wildlands appears to be glyphosate (Roundup), which is also the top herbicide in the United States. Glyphosate use has increased by 15 times since the widespread adoption of Roundup-resistant genetically modified organisms (GMO) in the 1990s.
Poisoning the land ... to save it?
The biggest surprise for the researchers was just how little information was available about herbicide use in North American parks, forests, rangelands and refuges. The researchers found information on herbicide use for just 1.2 million acres of such wildlands, out of 640 million acres in the United States alone.
They found that 443,000 pounds of herbicides were sprayed on that 1.2 million acres – equivalent to "the weight of 13 school buses," in Wagner's words. That comes out to just under 0.4 pounds per acre, about half the concentration used on U.S. farmland in 2014.
Yet, if those numbers are representative, herbicide use on wildlands would come out to 230 million pounds per year, only slightly less than the 250 million pounds used on farmlands annually.
This massive herbicide use is part of an effort to contain or eradicate invasive species that threaten to overrun native ecosystems, according to coauthor Cara R. Nelson of the University of Montana. Among the species targeted, Nelson says, are cheat grass (which threatens the endangered sage grouse by replacing its foods sources and causing big, hot wildfires), kudzu (which smothers plants and trees in the South), and water hyacinth (which chokes other life out of lakes and ponds).
Learn more: http://www.naturalnews.com/054736_glyphosate_US_wildlands_spraying.html#ixzz4 FLdx6mqW
(found at link above )
Monsanto Roundup Is Used on Wildlands, but No One Knows How Much
TakePart.com•July 8, 2016
.................... Glyphosate is also the herbicide of choice on wildlands, a surprise, said Wagner, because it’s “a nonselective herbicide that harms grasses and herbs alike and thus has a higher potential to negatively affect desired native plants.” When she and Nelson made a separate study of two other commonly used herbicides, they found that both inhibited germination of native and invasive plant seeds alike.
“That’s important,” said Nelson, because spraying herbicides to remove invasive species “opens up ecological niches” for other plants—and restoration ecologists generally aim to fill those niches by planting seeds of native species. The United States spends billions of dollars on such ecological restorations every year. But right now, we are spending that money blind.
Both the U.S. Forest Service and the Bureau of Land Management, the two largest land managers in the country, are working to change that. The BLM last year launched its National Invasive Species Information Management System, an attempt to standardize collection of data on invasive species treatments. ..........
https://www.yahoo.com/sy/ny/api/res/1.2/etn23DXPn8JSmUkoNP9j_g--/YXBwaWQ9aGlnaGxhbmRlcjtzbT0xO3c9Nzc1O2g9NTE4O2lsPX BsYW5l/http://media.zenfs.com/en_us/News/Takepart.com/monsato-1.jpg
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North American wildlands sprayed heavily with undisclosed volumes of glyphosate; scientists admit environmental impacts totally unknown
Friday, July 22, 2016 by: David Gutierrez, staff writer
(NaturalNews) Federal land managers are engaged in a reckless experiment as they spray North American wildlands with enormous quantities of herbicides without collecting any data on the effects of these practices, warned a team of international researchers from Europe, the United States, Mexico and Canada in a study published in the Journal of Applied Ecology.
The study marks the first effort to quantify herbicide use on North American wildlands.
"The numbers are much less than those for croplands, but they are astonishing," said lead author Viktoria Wagner, of Masaryk University in the Czech Republic.
The most popular herbicide used on North American wildlands appears to be glyphosate (Roundup), which is also the top herbicide in the United States. Glyphosate use has increased by 15 times since the widespread adoption of Roundup-resistant genetically modified organisms (GMO) in the 1990s.
Poisoning the land ... to save it?
The biggest surprise for the researchers was just how little information was available about herbicide use in North American parks, forests, rangelands and refuges. The researchers found information on herbicide use for just 1.2 million acres of such wildlands, out of 640 million acres in the United States alone.
They found that 443,000 pounds of herbicides were sprayed on that 1.2 million acres – equivalent to "the weight of 13 school buses," in Wagner's words. That comes out to just under 0.4 pounds per acre, about half the concentration used on U.S. farmland in 2014.
Yet, if those numbers are representative, herbicide use on wildlands would come out to 230 million pounds per year, only slightly less than the 250 million pounds used on farmlands annually.
This massive herbicide use is part of an effort to contain or eradicate invasive species that threaten to overrun native ecosystems, according to coauthor Cara R. Nelson of the University of Montana. Among the species targeted, Nelson says, are cheat grass (which threatens the endangered sage grouse by replacing its foods sources and causing big, hot wildfires), kudzu (which smothers plants and trees in the South), and water hyacinth (which chokes other life out of lakes and ponds).
Learn more: http://www.naturalnews.com/054736_glyphosate_US_wildlands_spraying.html#ixzz4 FLdx6mqW
(found at link above )
Monsanto Roundup Is Used on Wildlands, but No One Knows How Much
TakePart.com•July 8, 2016
.................... Glyphosate is also the herbicide of choice on wildlands, a surprise, said Wagner, because it’s “a nonselective herbicide that harms grasses and herbs alike and thus has a higher potential to negatively affect desired native plants.” When she and Nelson made a separate study of two other commonly used herbicides, they found that both inhibited germination of native and invasive plant seeds alike.
“That’s important,” said Nelson, because spraying herbicides to remove invasive species “opens up ecological niches” for other plants—and restoration ecologists generally aim to fill those niches by planting seeds of native species. The United States spends billions of dollars on such ecological restorations every year. But right now, we are spending that money blind.
Both the U.S. Forest Service and the Bureau of Land Management, the two largest land managers in the country, are working to change that. The BLM last year launched its National Invasive Species Information Management System, an attempt to standardize collection of data on invasive species treatments. ..........
https://www.yahoo.com/sy/ny/api/res/1.2/etn23DXPn8JSmUkoNP9j_g--/YXBwaWQ9aGlnaGxhbmRlcjtzbT0xO3c9Nzc1O2g9NTE4O2lsPX BsYW5l/http://media.zenfs.com/en_us/News/Takepart.com/monsato-1.jpg