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December 30, 2007
CDFA LBAM Task Force Meeting 1/08/08 Tuesday
10:30 am , The
Wyndham Hotel, San Jose, CA. Agenda
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State of California
Memorandum
To: Light Brown Apple Moth Environmental Advisory Task Force:
December 27, 2007
From: Robert V. Dowell, Ph.D. Integrated Pest Control Branch
Plant Health and Pest Prevention Services. Subject: Response
to LBAM Task Force Issues and Concerns
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11/2007 Agenda
for first meeting of CDFA Enviro Advisory Task Force
11/2007 Handout
for first meeting of CDFA Enviro Advisory Task Force
11/2007 List
of attendees for first meeting of CDFA Enviro Advisory Task Force
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December 29, 2007
Dr
Rapp schedule and flyer page.
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"Officials
try to clip bugs' wings - TRI-VALLEY: Twist ties hung in hopes of eradicating
apple moth"- By Sophia Kazmi STAFF WRITER, Contra
Costa Times
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"Light
Brown Apple Moth Quarantine Covers at Least 182 Square Miles in Five California
Counties" -CDFA
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December 27, 2007
Search the LBAMspray.com
website!
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CALIFORNIA
CONSTITUTION ARTICLE 1 DECLARATION OF RIGHTS
SECTION 1. All people
are by nature free and independent and have inalienable rights. Among these are
enjoying and defending life and liberty, acquiring, possessing, and protecting
property, and pursuing and obtaining safety, happiness, and privacy.
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December
26, 2007
"Method
of Madness" -Organic Farming Research Foundation takes issue with the
state's handling of the light brown apple moth infestation. By Steve Hahn, Metro
Santa Cruz 12.26.07
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December 24, 2007
Pesticide
Effects on Sex Last Generations in Rats by Josie Glausiusz for Discover (source)
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Recommendations
of the Technical Working Group
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Please see information on CEQA posted on our Legal
Page.
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United States Department of Agriculture (USDA)APHIS
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UC IPM- Light Brown Apple Moth in California: Quarantine, Management,
and Potential
Impacts
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"...Australian pest detected in at least nine California counties since
mid-March, [LBAM] "was probably
here a very long time prior to its discovery..." - UC Davis entomologist James
R. Carey
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December 22, 2007
A
Deathless Dead End - Good
Times Weekly,
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December 21, 2007
"What’s
your take on the controversy about light brown apple moth spraying?"
Interview with John Laird Written by Press Banner (source)
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New Dr Rapp 2 sided flyer Side
1 Side
2
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December 20, 2007
Local garden center suffers from USDA's
hysterical and irrational tatics.
"Light
brown apple moth found at SC garden center"
TOM RAGAN SENTINEL STAFF WRITER (source)
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December 19, 2007
"The
carrier of excitement" by Tom Karwin On Gardening (source)
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December 16, 2007
Get
to know the people who sprayed you. Dynamic
Aviation; Intelligence, Surveillance and Reconnaissance Airborne Data Acquisition,
Fire Management, Aerial Application, Sterile Insect Technique. Primary Markets
include: "National Defense"
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December 15, 2007
Listen
to Dr. Rapp and Dr. Biles on KSCA with Liz Koch
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December 14, 2007
Organic's
Organic Moth spray-free veggie.-Nuz: Santa Cruz County News Briefs
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December 13, 2007
California Alliance to Stop the Spray (CASS)
action teams are forming.
YOU CAN HELP!! See info on the right-hand side of this page for
meetings that are planned. Help put your skills to use in any of the appropriate
groups that are meeting! We need
you to get involved!!
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December 12, 2007
Watch
Live Voices Moth or Spray.
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What
is Poki Stewart
Namkung, Health Officer of Santa Cruz County telling people?
Poki Stewart Namkung,
M.D., M.P.H., Health Officer of Santa Cruz County, emailed us and requested that
we remove a statement on our site. The request itself did not bother us as much
as the blatant false information that she gave to us in her one-sentence email
on November 14th at 2:28AM. She clearly stated, "Medi-Cruz
is not available at the Emeline Clinic." That sentence gives us
great reason for concern considering that it is either a deliberate lie or an
attempt to mislead us so that we would remove the useful information that we had
posted. Read
emails
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Santa Cruz City Council update
on 12/11/07 evening session:
The Council is urging the city's attorneys to
have their day in court before the next round of spraying starts. Last night,
several concerned citizens requested the Santa Cruz City Council do more, in addition
to legal action. The council is mostly opposed to the spray, however, most members
feel that the legal action is the only direct action that they are willing to
take other than passing information to their attorney and collecting copies of
health reports. Most were opposed to Councilmember
Tony Madrigal's proposal for a Santa Cruz City Light Brown Apple Moth Community
& Environmental Advisory Task Force.
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December
11, 2007
BREAKING NEWS...
8pm: CALL to ACTION!
Santa Cruz City Council decided to consider
Councilmember
Tony Madrigal's proposal for a Santa Cruz City Light Brown Apple Moth Community
& Environmental Advisory Task Force. 809 Center Street, Santa Cruz (map).
Our sources told us that the Council would get to this issue at or around 10pm,
after the Council hears oral communication on the Fredrick St project.
You
can watch the Santa Cruz City Council meeting as it progresses on Comcast Channel
25, Santa Cruz Community TV (Channel 71 on the south county's Charter system).
Councilmember
Tony Madrigal's proposal for a Santa Cruz City Light Brown Apple Moth Community
& Environmental Advisory Task Force. The Recommendation is "That the City
Council establish a blue ribbon City of Santa Cruz Light Brown Apple Moth (LBAM)
Community & Environmental Advisory Task Force comprised of City Residents to establish
a process for community concerns, recommend City responses, and collaborate with
community organizations, county, state and federal agencies to make recommendations
to the City Council regarding the State's program to eradicate the LBAM."
-- see ya there!!
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The Toxicity
of Checkmate® LBAM-F and Epiphyas postvittana Pheromone to Ceriodaphnia dubia
and Fathead Minnow study shows two things.
1) Checkmate® LBAM-F when
it pools up like after rain the high pheromone concentrations will cause 100 %
mortality in the tested aquatic life.
2)Checkmate® LBAM-F "microcapsules
ranged in size from approximately 10 microns to 190 microns". ALA
and EPA
agree that esposure to particles of this size and smaller have been linked to
serious health ploblems like "increased hospitalization for asthma attacks...slowed
lung function growth in children and teenagers" and
many more health problems.
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JAMA Reports on long-term exposure to fine particulate air pollution. CONCLUSION:
Long-term
exposure to combustion-related fine particulate air pollution is an important
environmental risk factor for cardiopulmonary and lung cancer mortality.
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American
Lung Association says "Particulate
matter air pollution is especially harmful to people with lung disease such as
asthma and chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD)..."
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US EPA-United States Environmental Protection Agency says "scientific
studies have linked particulate matter,... with a series of significant health
problems, including: Premature death."
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December 10, 2007
"Apple
moth spraying opponents gather to discuss strategy" Tom Ragan Sentinel
staff writer
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Frequently
Asked Questions
Fact
sheet
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Official notice of the biochemical spray to Santa Cruz, CA (10/02/07)
page 1 page 2
page 3 page 4
page 5 page 6
page 7 page 8
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The
Santa Cruz County resolution ordering "BE
IT FURTHER RESOLVED AND ORDERED that no County department shall take any action
that would facilitate the aerial application..."
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The actual permit the SC County Agriculture Department signed to give approval
to the aerial spraying of biochemical pesticides. page 1
page 2
page 3
page 4
page 5
page 6
page 7
page 8
page 9
page 10
page 11
page12
page 13
page 14
page 15
page 16
page 17
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The
process (sec. 14009.)
to have the County Agriculture refusing, revoking, suspend the aerial spray permit.
(source)
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Listen
to Town Hall Meeting on 12/09/07
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December 8, 2007
The
New Material Saftey Data Sheet for LBAM-F - It is just great they decide to
supply the public with the MSDS for LBAM-F after they spray.
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"Inert
Ingredients in Pesticides"-
CAROLINE COX & MICHAEL SURGAN Environmental
Health Perspectives: http://dx.doi.org
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The
area where the CDFA was able to get the new pesticide apporved Pesticide Emergency
Exemptions Section
18 of Federal Insecticide, Fungicide, and Rodenticide Act (FIFRA) - TITLE
7 > CHAPTER 6 > SUBCHAPTER IISUBCHAPTER II—ENVIRONMENTAL PESTICIDE CONTROL (read)
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Just a reminder of what we reported months ago:
Homeland
Security funds Biochemical Pesticide Spraying (see page 9)
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December 7, 2007
The
1994 Rockefeller Report Examining Biological Experimentation on U.S. Military
"LITTLE
MOTH, BIG PROBLEM" - Matthew B. Stannard, Chronicle Staff Writer
Jerry Powell finds LBAM month on July 19, 2006, Legislation initiated on 02/22/07
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December
6, 2007
Listen to hosts Bruce Bratton on KZSC talk with Robin Daniels on 12/06/07. part
1 / part
2
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LETTER WRITING CAMPAIGN:
WRITE
TO GOVERNOR ARNOLD SCHWARZENEGGER, TO STOP AERIAL PESTICIDE SPRAYING IN SANTA
CRUZ
AND MONTEREY COUNTIES. Thank You- Roy Upton, Registered Herbalist Planetary
Herbals
Title 40: Protection of
Environment PART 26—PROTECTION OF HUMAN SUBJECTS
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Agenda
for first meeting of CDFA Enviro Advisory Task Force
Handout
for first meeting of CDFA Enviro Advisory Task Force
List
of attendees for first meeting of CDFA Enviro Advisory Task Force
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"FDA
Is Broken, Endangers American Lives"-By JOHN McKENZIE Dec. 3, 2007 ABC News
The report is scathing. An expert panel has told the Food and Drug Administration
that the organization is so understaffed and underfunded, it puts American lives
at risk. Gail Cassel, co-author of a 56-page report titled "FDA Science and Mission
at Risk," said, "The wheels are coming off. In fact, I would say they're off.
They're already off." ......While the squabbling in Washington continues, the
agency charged with protecting our food and drug supplies is, tonight, according
to the report, so broken, it cannot do the job. (backup)
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"Hospitals
Jammed as Banned Pesticide is Sprayed from the skies."
-William
Thomas 1997
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December 5, 2007
This is a call to action for all concerned cititzens. Call upon the new Santa
Cruz City Mayor Ryan Coonerty and ask that he respect and represent the views
of the community and support Councilmember Tony Madrigal's proposal for the SC
LBAM Advisory Task Force. Ask Mayor Ryan Coonerty to at the very least put the
proposal on the agenda for Dec 11, 2007 7pm Santa Cruz City Council second session.
The deadline for agenda items is this Thursday morning. You must act now!
Contact Mayor, Ryan Coonerty, City Hall; 831-420-5020 Residence; 423-8939
Email - rcoonerty@ci.santa-cruz.ca.us
You will need to spread the
word about this action. Forward this email to everyone, submit
letters to the editor, ask local news papers to pick up the story: Will the
new SC Mayor represent the views of the community on LBAM or does he have a secret
agenda' :)
Councilmember
Tony Madrigal's proposal for a Santa Cruz City Light Brown Apple Moth Community
& Environmental Advisory Task Force. The Recommendation is "That the City
Council establish a blue ribbon City of Santa Cruz Light Brown Apple Moth (LBAM)
Community & Environmental Advisory Task Force comprised of City Residents to establish
a process for community concerns, recommend City responses, and collaborate with
community organizations, county, state and federal agencies to make recommendations
to the City Council regarding the State's program to eradicate the LBAM."
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Santa
Cruz City Resolution Opposing the Light Brown Apple Moth Spraying
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December 4, 2007
There
was a guerrilla sign group that worked through the night posting NO LBAM SPRAY
signs.
Summary for the parade:
Saturday's Holiday
Downtown Parade in Santa Cruz was a big event for the anti-aerial spraying movement.
We handed out about 800 magnets, tons of fact sheets and info on the upcoming
town hall. The bumper stickers were a big hit. A group of unknown activists must
have gone out the night before and plastered downtown with fabulous, funny signs
against the spraying. They were informative and cheeky. Larry Graff and Peter
Weiss were accompained by several non professional musicians for the anti aerial
spray song written by local comedian Richard Stockton. Additionally, we received
a big piece of the article on Sunday about the parade.
December 3 , 2007
"Dubious
residue - Mystery droplets of a clear, oily substance cover rhododendron leaves
in Jerrald and Judy Phillips’ Bonny Doon garden. The drops appeared two weeks
ago, but Bonny Doon is outside the apple moth spray zone, and state and county
representatives have no answers. The couple asks residents who have found similar
residue to call them at 425-7541".- Written by Press Banner | Friday, 30
November 2007
"Spraying
for light brown apple moth is raising health concerns" -Richard Fagerlund
Saturday, November 10, 2007
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