1. United States
2. Mont.
3. Letter

I need you to oppose the Trump administration's massive expansion of glyphosate spraying on our federal forests. The Forest Service is treating our public lands like industrial tree farms, and it needs to stop. California authorities alone dumped 266,000 pounds of pure glyphosate across state forests in 2023, five times what they used 20 years ago. The administration is pushing these numbers even higher by invoking the Defense Production Act to boost glyphosate production and granting legal immunity to herbicide manufacturers. Meanwhile, the EPA shut down federally-funded UC Berkeley labs that were studying glyphosate's effects on human health. This chemical has been linked to non-Hodgkin's lymphoma and other cancers. The Forest Service's own justification is cost savings. Manual conifer release costs three times more than chemical spraying, so they're choosing profit over safety. Combined with firing 10% of Forest Service staff and accelerating logging for private companies, this administration is sacrificing long-term forest health for short-term extraction. Our national forests belong to the public, not to Bayer. Block funding for large-scale herbicide programs and demand environmental review before any chemical application on federal lands.