1. United States
2. Mont.
3. Letter

I'm asking you to block the U.S. Forest Service's plan to spray 10,000 acres of Lassen National Forest with glyphosate. This chemical has no place on public lands, especially when the science justifying its safety has been exposed as fraudulent. In December 2025, a key 2000 study by Gary Williams, Robert Kroes, and Ian Munro was retracted after internal emails proved Monsanto ghostwrote the research and paid the scientists tens of thousands of dollars. This study was cited 27 times in federal safety assessments. The International Agency for Research on Cancer classified glyphosate as a probable human carcinogen in 2015, and it's been linked to non-Hodgkin's lymphoma in multiple lawsuits. British scientist James Parry warned of chromosome damage risks, but Monsanto buried his findings. California forests were already doused with 266,000 pounds of glyphosate in 2023, with 70% applied by Sierra Pacific Industries. Glyphosate disrupts soil microbiomes, weakens forest resilience, and contaminates water supplies. The USFS has sustainable alternatives like prescribed burns and manual management but chooses chemical shortcuts instead. Stop this spraying before another 10,000 acres are poisoned under the guise of wildfire recovery. Our forests deserve better than debunked science and corporate profits.