Your Call 063008 The Light Brown Apple Moth's Future

What is next for the Light Brown Apple Moth? Plans to aerial spray the urban areas of Northern California have been canceled, but what does that mean for the state's strategy to eradicate the pest - and whose communities are still on the list to be sprayed? On the next Your Call we'll take a look at the campaign to stop the spray. How did local governments, environmental activists, and concerned scientists put a stop to the aerial application of pesticides on our cities? Does this victory mark the end of the struggle, or is it just the end of the beginning? It's Your Call, with Rose Aguilar and you.

Guests:
Nan Wishner in San Francisco, CA
Chair of the City of Albany Integrated Pest Management Task Force

David Dilworth in Monterey, CA
Founder of HOPE (Help Our Peninsula Environment)

James R. Carey in Davis, CA
Professor and Program Director of Biodemographic Determinants of Life Span, University of California, Davis

Click to Listen: The Light Brown Apple Moth's Future

Your Call 032708 How will this summer's aerial spraying impact people in the Bay Area?

How concerned should we be about this summer's aerial spraying in the Bay Area? On the next Your Call, we'll discuss the state's controversial $75 million plan to spray pesticides over 12 Bay Area counties to help destroy the light brown apple moth. The state says the moth must be eradicated to avert billions of dollars in crop losses. Critics say the chemicals haven't been tested. Four bills have been introduced in the state legislature to slow or prohibit the spraying. What do you think of the plan? It's Your Call, with Rose Aguilar and you.

Guests:
Dr. James Carey, professor of entomology at the University of California at Davis.

Daniel Harder, executive director of UCSC's arboretum. He conducted a study in New Zealand in January focused on the country's two major agricultural regions, which haven't been treated with moth-controlling pesticides since the mid-1990s.

Caroline Cox, Research Director at Center for Environmental Health based in Oakland

Click to Listen: How will this summer's aerial spraying impact people in the Bay Area?