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https://www.puravidaaquatic.com/wordpress/otnp-july-2025/

 
OTNP July 2025
Posted on June 28, 2025 by Bob ll
😃 Good morning lovely people. I just sent in my new FOIA request for pesticide information from three of our national parks.
 

I asked for six things:

1) Read-only access to all the _public_ information contained in the PUPS databases for those parks

2) All and complete PUPS database records filed under each Park for the year 2019 whether or not the chemical application was in the park or outside its physical boundaries.

3) Total number of PUPS database records for each park for the year 2019 regardless of whether the material within the entry is designated “private”, “nonpub”, “nonpublic” or non-public.

4) All database heading classification/categories for any and all pesticide database records particularly any in the PUPS database for each of these Parks

5) Cicely Muldoon’s job description as superintendent of Yosemite and the date it was signed or authorized.
The current Sequoia superintendent’s job description and current Everglades superintendent’s job description as well

To minimize the chance of any of the pesticides provided in response to the above not being on my lists due to my poor spelling I am asking for:
6) The valid and full EPA registration numbers for all the pesticides or adjuvants approved or used in any way by these three parks for the last 6 years
 

Thank you for asking our environmental organizations to provide basic information on what pesticides the national parks are spraying.  And you can continue to help by forwarding this to anyone you believe might help as well

 

Some of you are starting to smile because I have tried to circumvent the unfortunate “mistakes” that the nps made when the they answered my first FOIA request. The phrase “willful ignorance and strategic stupidity” comes to mind.  _And_, since Cicely Muldoon’s office emailed me that I would have to file a FOIA to even get her job description — I did 😄.

The Freedom Of Information Act actually makes it incredibly illegal that she didn’t have it on hand and online to simply email me but many people worry about bigger fish. I personally think it is _the small everyday things_ that are killing us.

The nps answered only two (feebly) of six questions the last time. How many of these six do you think they will respond to this time?

And people wonder why I am fine with the national park service administration getting reviewed and (polished?) lately. I am 111% behind the rangers. I am about 5% behind the administration which often works more for big industry than you/us. And the only time the administration thinks of our endangered animals seems to be when they want to waive them in front of our faces for donations.

 

On another subject:
How many of you are worried about eating plastic? How many of you have eaten plastics, industrial soaps, and detergents lately?
Well, we all have eaten all the above and in rapidly growing amounts even on organic products.

Because many industrial soaps and detergents, and liquid plastics are designated by the EPA as “inert”. These industrial products are increasingly used on crops, including organic. Many are even registered by OMRI and specifically labeled as _safe_ for organic use.🥴

They are sold as adjuvants, surfactants, spreader-stickers, and pesticide enhancers. Quite a few are the next generation of forever chemicals. Many are already being identified as endocrine disruptors. Some have been linked to damage to our intestinal epithelial cells. And there is _very little_ regulation, or even information on environmental breakdown, for most.

 

Anybody with:
1 gastrointestinal issues?
2 IFB?
3 Exocrine pancreatic insufficiency (EPI)?
4 Gluten issues?

Don’t worry be _Happy_. It is not even possible that we have all been poisoned by our food manufacturing system; particularly the pesticide industry right?
It _must_ be our genetics.

Many, many people try to buy organic because they realize that our farmed food is contaminated. But what they don’t realize is that while there are limitations on various pesticides there are no legal limitations on the thousands of “inert” toxins and adjuvents being sprayed on “organic” crops.
 

The epa has designated thousands of chemicals as “inert” as of the date of this post.  I could have done many more than the four examples below but this post is getting massively long 😃

Four examples (again – designated as INERT chemicals):

1)
1,4-Benzenedicarboxylic acid, polymer with 1,2-ethanediol and alpha-hydro-omega-hydroxypoly(oxy-1,2-ethanediyl)

(polyester derivative)

2)
2-propenoic acid, 2-methyl-, 2-aminoalkylester, polymer with ethyl acrylate, 2-hydroxyethyl methacrylate, polyethylene glycol methacrylate alkyl ether and polyethylene-polypropylene alkyl ether

(An acrylic plastic)

3)
Phenyl tris(trimethylsiloxy)silane

(Industrial Soap/detergent, likely next gen forever chemical)

4)
Siloxanes and silicones, 3-aminopropyl Me, Me stearyl

(Another Industrial Soap/detergent, likely next gen forever chemical)

Remember these are all designated INERT along with several thousand similar products.
And I ran these four items independently through several AI engines requesting environmental breakdown times….

Summary Table:
1) Modified PET with PEG
High (decades to centuries)
PEG may enhance hydrophilicity but not significantly biodegradability

2) Complex Acrylic Copolymer
High
Stable backbone resists degradation

3) Phenyl Tris(trimethylsiloxy)silane Moderate to High
Phenyl group hinders hydrolysis

4) Modified Silicones
High
Functional groups have minimal impact on degradation

My double checking and verification agreed with this analysis and also generated several additional comments.

1)… “essentially non-biodegradable and can persist for hundreds of years. The breakdown primarily occurs through slow photodegradation and mechanical weathering rather than biological processes.”

3&4) ” Siloxanes have stable bonds between silicon, carbon and oxygen atoms, and there is perception that no microorganisms can cleave these bonds in nature.”

Do you really want to be eating these?  Do you really want our national parks to be spraying them and then hiding that information from you?

 

As little as 2 years ago; close to a dozen PFAS’s were also listed under this “inert” category by the EPA.

These chemicals are anything but “inert”. However, categorizing them as such makes it much easier on epa bureaucrats and the chemical industry.

We must start getting basic information on the chemical problems we are spraying _everywhere_. I believe we must create chemical free zones. #ChemFreeZones.

I believed that our _Toxic_ national parks would have been a good place to start these chemical free zones.

For past OTNP (#_OTNP on X) issues.
https://www.puravidaaquatic.com/wordpress/past-ourtoxicnationalparks-posts/
But you may want to start here. www.puravidaaquatic.com/wordpress/why-i-started-this/
If you have received this as a forward and would like to continue receiving it please email me “vidaaquatic@gmail.com”
And if you would like to donate as little as $5 to the cause, you can Zelle it to vidaaquatic@gmail.com. thank you very much. Bob
 
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