{"id":59,"date":"2026-04-02T22:54:20","date_gmt":"2026-04-02T22:54:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/233.srajak.imgd.ca\/project-3\/?p=59"},"modified":"2026-04-02T22:54:20","modified_gmt":"2026-04-02T22:54:20","slug":"stop-the-spray-glyphosate-forest-monoculture-and-fire-most-popular","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/233.srajak.imgd.ca\/project-3\/stop-the-spray-glyphosate-forest-monoculture-and-fire-most-popular\/","title":{"rendered":"Stop the Spray: Glyphosate, Forest Monoculture, and Fire\u00a0(Most Popular)"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure class=\"wp-block-post-featured-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"576\" src=\"https:\/\/233.srajak.imgd.ca\/project-3\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/Aspens-after-fire-from-James-Steidle-small.jpg\" class=\"attachment-post-thumbnail size-post-thumbnail wp-post-image\" alt=\"\" style=\"object-fit:cover;\" srcset=\"https:\/\/233.srajak.imgd.ca\/project-3\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/Aspens-after-fire-from-James-Steidle-small.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/233.srajak.imgd.ca\/project-3\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/Aspens-after-fire-from-James-Steidle-small-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/233.srajak.imgd.ca\/project-3\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/Aspens-after-fire-from-James-Steidle-small-768x432.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n<p><strong>Thousands of hectares of Canadian forest are sprayed every year with glyphosate, a weed-killing agent, for the sole purpose of killing off grasses, shrubs, and deciduous trees.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Yes, really.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It sounds unbelievable, but in the eyes of Canada\u2019s forest industry, maples, alders, aspens, birch, ferns, fireweed, bluejoint grass, every kind of local berry, and other native species are considered weeds or pests. So they are removed, sometimes through a manual process called brushing, but more often by helicopters spraying large quantities of glyphosate.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Glyphosate is also in Roundup\u00ae, which was originally invented and sold by Monsanto but is now owned by Bayer. In 2015, the International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC) concluded that glyphosate is \u201cprobably carcinogenic to humans.\u201d Since then, Roundup has been banned for cosmetic use in many places, and a quick Google search reveals that thousands of Roundup lawsuits are ongoing against Monsanto and Bayer, with almost US $11 billion in settlements paid out to date, many to people who claim exposure to Roundup gave them non-Hodgkin\u2019s lymphoma.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>So why in the world is this product routinely sprayed on Canadian forests?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Because when native species begin to grow in a replanted cutblock, they compete for space, light, moisture, and nutrients with commercially desirable conifers, which are naturally glyphosate-resistant.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>glyphosate spraying, forest health, fire risk<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":30,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-59","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-forest"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/233.srajak.imgd.ca\/project-3\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/233.srajak.imgd.ca\/project-3\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/233.srajak.imgd.ca\/project-3\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/233.srajak.imgd.ca\/project-3\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/233.srajak.imgd.ca\/project-3\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=59"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/233.srajak.imgd.ca\/project-3\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":60,"href":"https:\/\/233.srajak.imgd.ca\/project-3\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59\/revisions\/60"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/233.srajak.imgd.ca\/project-3\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/30"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/233.srajak.imgd.ca\/project-3\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=59"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/233.srajak.imgd.ca\/project-3\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=59"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/233.srajak.imgd.ca\/project-3\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=59"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}