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Lake Tahoe residents ‘horrified’ by plans to spray cancer-linked glyphosate in public lands (www.theguardian.com)

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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.

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[–] panda_abyss@lemmy.ca 43 points 3 days ago (2 children)

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.

[–] CompactFlax@discuss.tchncs.de 16 points 3 days ago

Mountain terrain lakeside without any undergrowth sounds like a good way to create mudslides.

[–] discocactus@lemmy.world 3 points 2 days ago

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.