Our Forests are Dying & Burning due to Poor Forest Management & the Ban on DDT Insecticide which Controlled Pine Beetles.
Please work to restore DDT to stop the death & burning of our precious US Forest Service forests. DDT was used very safely to control Pine Beetles. Poor forest management of not allowing the removal of dead trees and dead fall have contributed to catastrophic wildfires. Please read the following and reinstate DDT manufacture and use. I would like a reply to what steps you are taking to restore DDT use.
Note: I worked on a task force for my employer, who had a corn root worm insecticide which was in the same class as DDT (Chlorinated Hydrocarbon) to try to stop the ban on DDT. Unfortunately, ALL Chlorinated hydrocarbons chemicals were banned. When DDT and the company’s corn insecticide product was banned, I and several others lost our jobs. I obtained employment in Idaho 53 years ago. I know first hand the information which follows:
RESTORE DDT TO KILL PINE BEETLES – LESSEN FIRES
The ban on the insecticide DDT in 1971 by EPA administrator William Ruckelshaus, who had come from the World Wildlife Fund has cost millions of lives due to malaria which DDT had nearly eradicated and other insect transmitted diseases like West Nile Virus. Note: The Environmental Protection Agency originated from an Executive Order from President Richard Nixon. The EPA has NEVER been voted into law by Congress.
DDT was ruled safe by EPA judge Edmund Sweeney. The ban also is causing the death of millions of acres of pine and hardwood trees due to insects previously controlled by DDT.
Note: Ruckelshaus never attended any of the congressional hearings on DDT which resulted in over 9312 pages of testimony that largely defended DDT’s continued usage with minor restrictions. With the stroke of his pen Ruckelshaus has caused unnecessary killing of our forests and subsequent wildfires. Also, the death of millions of malaria victims. His decision has killed more people than Hitler, Mao, Stalin and Lenin combined. The death count continues to grow. The death of millions from Malaria continues since the ban on DDT. India has the only DDT manufacturing plant. India uses DDT and has very few deaths from Malaria.
The Environmental Defense Fund and its allies had pushed to have DDT banned. The book, “Silent Spring” by Rachel Carson, containing half-truths and lies, was used to place DDT under investigation.
J. Gordon Edwards, Ph.D. entomologist, defended the safety of DDT in his publication, “DDT, A Case Study in Scientific Fraud.”
There are three major lies still being repeated about DDT. These are: DDT did NOT kill birds or cause egg shell thinning. The initial egg shell test was conducted without necessary Calcium in the diet to produce normal shells. This was published in Science Journal.
A second test with Calcium in the diet showed no difference, but Science editor Philip Abelson refused to publish the truth that DDT did not cause thin egg shells.
The Audubon Society (a songbird society) had issued a memo to its members asking them to destroy raptor nests. That led to a decrease in raptors. Raptors eat the eggs and kill the songbirds. When there was a huge fine and possible federal prison time, the raptor population came back very rapidly.
DDT is NOT toxic to humans and is NOT a human carcinogen. It is far safer than many replacement insecticides that have high mammalian toxicity. DDT does NOT persist in the environment and does NOT accumulate and concentrate in the food chain.
A documentary, “Three Billion and Counting.” By Dr. Rutledge Taylor is named for the number of malaria victims world-wide throughout history and exposes over five decades of genocide due to the DDT ban. Before the ban, Malaria was almost totally eradicated and pine beetles and Tussock moths were also controlled.
Original EPA hearing transcripts (9,312 Pages) reveal that DDT is safe and effective. Ruchelshaus was reported that he NEVER read any of the hearing transcripts and NEVER attended any of the many days of testimony.
Dr. Arthur Robinson (an Oregon State Senator) said, “The number of children slaughtered by the ban of DDT is greater than any other genocide in world history.” Even Greenpeace co-founder Patrick Moore said that the ban of DDT and environmental controls were not about concern for the environment, but was a way to reduce world population. He left Greenpeace as he found out that people control was the objective of the environmental movement. Note: The UN’s Agenda 2030 including climate change is all about controlling all human activity and destroying our economy and the economies of all nations.
Congress must pass a bill to restore DDT to not only fight malaria and Zika Virus, but also West Nile Virus and tree killing insects to save our forests and reduce destructive fires.
CONGRESS must pass S. 3428 and H.R. 6645 to DEFUND the anti-American, pro-Communist United Nations to get the US out of the UN.
3 replies on “Destructive Forest Mismanagement”
DDT is not the problem or the solution. Like fire, DDT can be a useful tool. FEDERAL management is the problem. Like everything else the federal government touches, it turns to disaster. My perspective is based on over 40 years of private, state and federal land management.
DDT killed my grandfather, so no, I do not agree.
Not a single link to sources supporting your claims. All I could find on the subject, including the NAS and Proceedings of the Royal Society B. A, support the claims of egg shell thinning and environmental persistence. DDT’s effectiveness in controlling malaria was confirmed. Nothing on human risks one way or the other.