Letter – APHIS Grasshopper Program

DESCRIPTION: Letter to U.S. Department of Agriculture, Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service; Department of the Interior, Bureau of Land Management; University of Wyoming College of Agriculture, Life Sciences & Natural Resources re: New / Supplemental EIS for the APHIS Grasshopper Program
TO: USDA Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service Administrator Dr. Michael Watson, Acting BLM Director Bill Groffy, and University of Wyoming College of Agriculture, Life Sciences & Natural Resources Chair Scott Schell
FROM: Sharon Selvaggio, Pesticide Reduction Program Specialist, The Xerces Society; Hardy Kern, Director of Government Relations, American Bird Conservancy; Johanna Hamburger, Director and Senior Attorney, Animal Welfare Institute, Terrestrial Wildlife Program; Danae Yurgel, Orchard Manager, Avella Orchard; Jennifer Eisele, Communities and Ecosystems Project Manager, Beyond Toxics; Anne Millbrooke, Designated Signer, Bozeman Birders; Lori Ann Burd, Environmental Health Program Director, Center for Biological Diversity; Jewel Tomasula, National Policy Director, Endangered Species Coalition; Steve Blackledge, Senior Director of Conservation Campaigns, Environment America; Kendra Klein, PhD, Deputy Director of Science, Friends of the Earth Mike Popejoy, Land Conservation Director, Grand Canyon Trust; Fern Holland, Pesticides & Public Health Campaign Director, Hawaii Alliance for Progressive Action (HAPA); Marisa Ernst, Board member and Conservation Chair, Lahontan Audubon Society (now Northwest Nevada Bird Alliance); Renée Scott, Program Coordinator, Massachusetts Pollinator Network; Karan Fairchild, Co-President, Mid-Willamette Bird Alliance; Rose Strickland, Chair NNPS Conservation Committee, Nevada Native Plant Society; Anni Hanna, Director, New Mexico Climate Justice; Sally Paez, Staff Attorney, New Mexico Wild; Dr. Nancy L.C. Steele, President, Northern Arizona Audubon Society; Sharalyn Peterson, Staff Ecologist, Northwest Center for Alternatives to Pesticides; Mark Salvo, Conservation Director, Oregon Natural Desert Association; Steve Pedery, Conservation Director, Oregon Wild; Joyce Kennedy, Executive Director, People & Pollinators Action Network; Mary O’Brien, Executive Director, Project Eleven Hundred; Chandra Rosenthal, Western Lands and Rocky Mountain Advocate, Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility; Clariss Mancebo, Development and Policy Associate, Re:wild Your Campus; George Wuerthner, President, Sage Steppe Wild; Thomas Jervis, Board Member, Sangre de Cristo Audubon Society; Terry Sloan, Director, Southwest Native Cultures; Nathana Bird, Co-Director, Tewa Women United; Anita Amstutz, Founder, Think Like a Bee; Teresa Seamster, Water Sentinels, Sierra Club/Rio Grande Chapter; Josh Osher, Public Policy Director, Western Watersheds Project; Chris Smith, Wildlife & Wild Places Program Director, WildEarth Guardians; Michelle Lute, PhD; Executive Director, Wildlife for All; Stephen O. Wilson, Owner, Wilson’s Honey; Julie Ansell; Jenifer Ferriel; Curtis Freese, Ph.D.; Jerry Freilich, Research Coordinator, National Park Service (retired); Richard C. Harmon; Layne Hartsell; Elizabeth Reed; Mark C. Stirling
DATE: November 13, 2025
TAGS: BLM, Insecticides, Pesticides, Public Lands Rangelands, USDA

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