Katherine Levy remembers a childhood deeply rooted in the natural offerings of Lake Tahoe – water-skiing in the summer and working as ski instructor on the surrounding snow-covered mountains during winter months.
She recently moved back to live out her retirement along the lake’s north shore. But she doesn’t like what she has found upon her return: a US government plan to spray multiple types of herbicides, including the cancer-linked glyphosate weed killer – within national forest property that abuts the community’s cherished lake.
This plan is insane.
To protect tree growth, kill everything else!
Except this kills the soil, soil needs plants or it dries out and erodes. Soil also needs a microbiome of fungi and microbes to keep it healthy.
And it kills the pollinators, which trees need to reproduce. And it kills things like the squirrels that scatter seeds across the land, so the trees won’t be able to reproduce.
And it encourages a monoculture. One wave of disease or insect will kill the entire region’s biosphere.
So to protect the trees, kill everything else, make it so they can’t reproduce, and make the soil inhospitable. What fucking moron approved this.
Glyphosate isn’t approved for spraying on soil lacking a certain amount of organic matter. Pretty sure it would be a felony to spray against the label in that type of forest. They need collective legal action stat.
Mountain terrain lakeside without any undergrowth sounds like a good way to create mudslides.
Glyphosate does not “kill the soil”, quit making shit up
When there’s nothing growing in the soil what happens?
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0929139322003948
Same thing that happens any time the current occupants of an ecological niche die, new ones move in and replace them, fucking duh. Nothing in this link supports your weird hippie claims, try again.
you sound like the people who mow thier grass before a drought period, and then create dust storms through the neighborhood.
Hippie claims, lol
My yard is unmowed and full of native flowering plants for the bugs lol, cope
then why are you pro glosphate calling people hippies like its derogatory if youre a bit “hippy” yourself eh?
Because glyphosate is extremely good at what it does and relatively harmless when used responsibly. Most tools aren’t safe in the hands of an idiot, doesn’t make them any less valuable.