To All concerned with the coming aerial spray's effect on wildlife and
domestic animals in San Francisco and what the SF animal welfare
commission can do about it.   Please come tomorrow and speak out.

See meeting announcements below, plus below those announcement see
information of the effect of the soon to happen pesticide spray on
animals and of all nature in SF.

Wednesday, 07 May 2008
Two meetings on Light Brown Apple Moth Spraying - Thurs 5/8/08

There will be two meetings on Thursday evening, May 8, 2008, about the
proposed program to eradicate the Light Brown Apple Moth
(LBAM),including a proposal to spray a pheromone that will  disrupt
the moth's mating over San Francisco and most of the Bay Area.

The sprayings will be repeated each month for up to 9 months  every
one to three months up to  five years. The spraying is quite
controversial, with many people concerned about possible effects on
people and animal's health.


1st Meeting
http://www.sfgov.org/site/awcc_meeting.asp?id=1344  contact
commissioners if you can not make it to speak out.
Animal Control and Welfare Commission
Thurs, May 8, 2008
5:30 pm
Room 408, City Hall
San Francisco

The Commission will hear presentations from Bob Dowell, from the CA
Dept of Food and Agriculture and the LBAM program director, in support
of the spraying, and from three opponents of the

spraying: Dr. Joel Parrott, Director of the Oakland Zoo, Roy Upton,
and author Susan McCarthy. The Commission testimony will focus on
possible effects of the aerial spraying and other proposed

measures to eradicate the LBAM on animals, both domestic pets and
wildlife. Testimony will also include what pet guardians should and
should not do if the spraying occurs.

2nd Meeting
San Francisco Town Hall Meeting on LBAM
Thursday, May 8, 2008
7:00 pm
County Fair Building (Hall of Flowers) in Golden Gate Park
9th Avenue and Lincoln Way - at the Strybing Arboretum/SF Botanical
Gardens

Brought to you by San Franciscans Concerned About the Spray
with Sponsors:  Senator Carole Migden, Supervisor Ross Mirkarimi, Stop
the Spray, CASS-SF, and Play Not Spray

For more information go to www.sfspraytownhall.org
Speakers include:

*  Dr. James Carey, UC-Davis entomologist
*  Jeff Rosendale, horticulturist and co-author with Dr. Daniel Harder
of a paper on management of the LBAM
*  Nan Wishner, Albany Integrated Pest Management Task Force
*  Stacia Lansman, M.D.
*  Helge Hellberg, Executive Director, Marin Organic
*  Mike Lynberg, Silicon Valley businessman who documented the adverse
health reactions of Santa Cruz and Monterey residents after those
regions were sprayed.
*  John Russo, farmer and Director, Stop the Spray
*  Frank Egger, former Mayor of Fairfax and Coordinator of Stop the
Spray Marin
*  State Senator Carole Midgen
*  San Francisco Supervisor Ross Mirkarimi


Comprehensive website on issue:
http://www.knowyourusa.com/kyu/lbamspray/LBAMSprayRefdoc.htm (see
third main topic down Toxicology and 4th topic Health).

reports on wildlife etc from site:
Adverse impact on the bird populations (Sea bird die-off) (11 page report)
http://www.lbamspray.com/Reports/LBAM%20Fact%20Sheet%20Bird%20Die-off.pdf

Light Brown Apple Moth (LBAM) Eradication Program: Potential Effects
on Pollinators and Implications for California Agriculture
http://www.lbamspray.com/Reports/Bees.pdf

Lawrence Rose M.D., M.P.H., former Senior Public Medical Officer for
Cal-OSHA
and part of the UCSF Occupational/Environmental Medicine Department
Marin Pesticide Spraying Health Hazard Alert:
http://lbamspray.com/Reports/Health%20Hazard%20Alert%20by%20Dr.%20Larry%20Rose%20MD%20MPH.pdf

Information about Checkmate's particle size and composition
From: Aquatic Toxicology Laboratory the University of California, Davis
http://lbamspray.com/00_Documents/2007/ATL_Pheromone_Toxicity_Testing_112807.pdf

CheckmateŽ LBAM-F when it pools up like after rain the high pheromone
concentrations can cause 100 % mortality in the tested aquatic life.

Dr. Dennis Knepp, PhD, and Dr. Jeff Haferman. PhD, review data
provided by the California Department of Food and Agriculture (CDFA)
and find errors in regard to the article size of CheckMate, the
pesticide used in fall 2007. This letter and the accompanying analysis
show that the micro-capsules in CheckMate constitute a health hazard
which should have been investigated prior to spraying.
The CDFA states in their analysis that only 1.2% of the particles in
the Checkmate spray were smaller than 10 microns, which is a critical
size for inhalation to deep within the lungs. They based their
computations on particle volume, not number of particles, which is
simply incorrect, Haferman stated. Knepp explained that when the
analysis is corrected we find the average particle size to be about 17
microns with significant numbers of much smaller particles. The
scientists cited research that shows the expected mass concentration
of the Checkmate spray could cause an increase in mortality rates by 7
per cent.
http://forum.stopthespray.org/download/file.php?id=216&sid=f012f9ca45addfc03cf5606e1278da9e
http://www.pdsonoma.org/article/scientists-spotlight-error-in-agency-analysis-of-lbam-spray



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