Advocate Against Herbicide Spraying on Red Hill

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The $2k goal will be used to pay a legal retainer and will enable John Terry, a lawyer familiar with the process, to write Boulder County on behalf of BoCO Regenerative Land Movement, imploring the County to stop the spray of Indaziflam (a Bayer/Monsanto product) in the Red Hill area just west and upslope from the Yellow Barn and Elk Run regenerative farming demonstration sites. 

Any additional funds raised will be used to fuel on-the-ground organizing efforts by Yellow Barn and Drylands Agroecology Research. 

Summary of the issue: Indiziflam sterilizes soil for years. It kills ALL seeds before germination, not just the “bad ones.” Emerging research suggests it may remain active for 5+ years, possibly a decade. It leaves behind “moonscapes” of bare ground where re-seeding efforts have failed. The targeted areas are post-fire landscapes, places where natural regeneration depends on seeds sprouting.

Indaziflam is manufactured by Bayer, the company that acquired Monsanto. Bayer paid for a family member of a County official to receive a graduate degree from CSU, who then conducted field trials in Boulder County. The same researcher now works for Bayer/Envu in Government Relations. Unfortunately, this has proven an effective strategy to persuade state and local land managers to make Boulder County "ground zero" for this product.