Forestry trying to spray Glysophate herbicides around Squamish, hope and aggasiz area

[Pharma]

Hey guys,
Im wondering your thoughts on the BC timber sales proposal to spray glysophates around the Squamish, hope and aggasiz area? How wide spread is this spray already used and will this have a large effect on the food we hunt/fish for around these parts? Seems like we’re asking for more fires in the future removing all the underbrush.

there targets include:
-Cotton woods/alders including salmon berry, cottonwood, red alder, red elderberry and devils club.
-big leaf maple
-mixed brush including red raspberry, thimble berry, Douglas maple and braken ferns

Here’s the plan:
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1A6W...jLdtQ2brJ/view

[islandhunter]

They did it up around here for weeks. Tanker after tanker. Yummy

[Livewire322]

Seems like they have a robust plan in place to manage risks. Forestry is an important industry and some moderate risks are justifiable to ensure it remains a viable industry for generations to come.

Can’t be any worse than breathing in pesticides from nearby farms, or brake dust and diesel particulate from roadways.

[Harvest the Land]

The reality is that the Government doesn't want to know what the long-term impacts are of spraying glyphosate will have on wildlife/ecosystems/humans etc so they aren't really trying to study it. 90% of the sprayed areas in BC are in the PG/Vanderhoof/Quesnel areas. Could there be a link between a big decrease in moose numbers in those areas and spraying their forage with glyphosate? Maybe. I would say it's likely but the govt doesn't want to know because alders/aspen/birch etc all will grow much faster than the timber seedlings if they're not sprayed and no way in hell BC timber sales wants that because they make money on conifers - not those pesky deciduous trees which are staples in moose/deer/bear/beaver diets. They sacrifice the forage of these animals in order to grow monocrops as quickly as possible.

Thanks for the heads up that they're now spraying down here - just brutal news. But I'm not surprised - walking through some of these 5-10 year old cutblocks is like a friggin jungle - it's dangerous to fall in those blackberry patches if you're not dressed properly

[tigrr]

The spraying under power lines is worse. The deer left this neighbourhood for 10 years after the spraying took place.
Still won't hold a candle to the spraying on the fields in AB.

[HappyJack]

It's poison, don't do any berry picking and mushrooms are out too, it's poison

[evcity]

Bottom line, it kills most of the plants that game animals eat. A cutblock that is manually brushed or left to regenerate naturally can be of high value to browsers and grazers - we all know that. A clearcut that gets sprayed is not, and it won't be any time soon, at least not as a feeding area.In some of the MU's I hunt in, glyphosate is used extensively. Seeing high value habitat get turned into moonscape sucks.

[Jereky]

Shocked but not shocked that our social justice gov team allows this, but has put a kibosh on buying a gas powered vehicle beyond 2030…. Wondering if someone should start a class action lawsuit over the liberal use of a known carcinogen. How much did those folks down south make from their lawsuit with Monsanto? They paid with their life and health, but we’re awarded damages none the less. Sad state of affairs when you have to sue the gov for the right to a health despite them creating laws for our ‘health and safety’.

[Monashee]

Putting poison on public or private land that runs off into creeks , rivers and lakes where we humans get out drinking water from is insane. Not to mention all the wild animals that are directly affected.

Don't understand why in 2022 this glyphosate is being used.

Using it to kill broadleaf trees and shrubs is just stupid , the forest needs all the species doing their thing to make the land healthy not a flippin monoculture that benefits shareholders operating on a 20 year turn around

If there was a province wide general strike glyphosate would get banned pronto .

[IronNoggin]

Seems like they have a robust plan in place to manage risks. Forestry is an important industry and some moderate risks are justifiable to ensure it remains a viable industry for generations to come.

Labeling this with the "moderate risk" as you have is delusional.
The risks are FAR greater than you allude to.

It is a known carcinogen.

The poison spray directly removes food & habitat for all ungulates and much MUCH more.

The runoff into creeks, streams and rivers has major deleterious effects on aquatic life right from the bottom end up to the top. BTW, you better hope you are sourcing your drinking water from any water body receiving this poison too.

A forest without diversity is simply a tree FARM, not a forest.

There are so many things wrong with this undertaking I cannot believe anyone who considers themselves an outdoorsman could support it in any way shape or form.

Disgusted.

Nog