Why Fained, Nevada Won’t Be Aerially Sprayed for LBAM
Saturday 12 Apr 2008 | LBAM Spray Bay Area
Added by Editor:As has been pointed out by super reader BPM, this Monterey Herald Article was a hoax, written as an April Fools Joke. Thank you for pointing this out, BPM. I’m guessing many other people didn’t realize this:
It may be that everyone has already seen this Monterey Herald article, but I only found it today. How is it that the USDA was willing to admit that this small town has plenty of birds and bugs to take care of LBAM, but somehow, no town in California does?
As a birder, I can attest that the Bay Area has ABUNDANT bird life. Marin, set to be aerially sprayed monthly beginning this August, is one of the world’s great migratory bird stops. Or at least, it has been. After the spraying, it may become a wild bird cemetery.
As a gardener, I can attest that you can’t turn over a shovelful of ground in the Bay Area without finding a few earwigs and beetles.
Every night, beneficial bats leave their perches underneath freeway overpasses, roof ledges, trees, caves and abandoned structures and circle the night sky, consuming vast quantities of moths.
We have all of the natural predators here in California. They have been keeping LBAM populations balanced for decades.
But if we spray our birds, spray our bats, spray our bugs, we lose, possibly forever, the very beings who keep our planet healthy. This is the crisis of imbalance created by agricultural pesticide use, and it is the negligent and destructive situation CDFA and the USDA is intentionally creating with their actions. The more they spray, the more they get paid. It’s abhorrent.
We must keep fighting to protect our bats, our birds, our helping bugs and ourselves.
Saturday 12 Apr 2008 | admin | LBAM Spray Bay Area |
At the very end of the article it states the following: “The garden column on the light brown apple moth by Tom Karwin on page 5 of the Living section on Monday was intended to be a light-hearted April Fool’s Day joke. Fained, Nev. and Lyon County are purely fictional”.
The article took me by surprise, too. The small print (above quote) at the very end was often overlooked by readers. I didn’t appreciate Tom Karwin’s humor on such a serious issue.
Well, for gosh sakes, BPM - just like you said, I missed that, too. I’d better edit the above to include what you’ve said. I don’t want to mislead readers.
I don’t get the idea behind his joke at all. Thanks for the heads up.
Mim
not funny