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The US Forest Service plans to spray up to 75,000 Acres in the Lake Tahoe area with glyphosate, including campgrounds, trailheads and ski areas. They are doing so to purportedly accelerate wildfire recovery. Spraying is already underway in Eldorado.

The reality is that they are killing deciduous trees, native shrubs, flowering plants, and anything that competes with the commercially attractive conifer trees used by the timber industry. Additionally, the suggested benefits of spraying glyphosate for wildfire prevention can be achieved through other, non-chemical methods that don’t kill entire ecosystems.

We need your help. Please call all of these offices and tell them why you do not want glyphosate sprayed. Leave a message if they don’t pick up.

TRPA
775-588-4547 Press 0

Lake Tahoe Basin Management Unit
530-543-2600 

Tahoe National Forest
530-265-4531 Press 0

Plumas National Forest
530-283-2050 

Lassen National Forest
530-257-2151

Eldorado National Forest
(530) 622-5061

A sample script:
I am calling because I do not want glyphosate or any herbicide used in the forest. There are other ways to manage forest regrowth and fire prevention that do not involve carcinogenic chemicals that will contaminate the entire area and kill ecosystems. This plan to spray is unacceptable.

Finally, please go and tag these accounts on X:
@LakeTahoeUSFS
@EldoradoNF
@Tahoe_NF
@LassenNF
@USFSPlumas
@forestsevice 
@USDA
@SecRollins
@TahoeAgency 

Instagram:
@trpa_tahoe 
@SecRollins
@usda

See the Mother Jones article in my bio for background information.
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