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I caught the tail end of a Carp City Council meeting and Parks Director Matt Roberts was giving a report on the IPM Integrated Pest Managament program in the city...I heard some things that caught my attention..like poisoning pests such as rodents and Bermuda grass...the problem cited by Roberts was Bermuda grass is growing, has been growing and continues to grow despite wasted efforts to get rid of it...Matt kept calling the grass an infestation...well the grasss has been growing forever so it's not an infestation....it's just grass but because he and the Parks Service are on a native -only kick, he wants to get rid of it and he wants to use poison....glyphosate..Round Up....from Monsanto...the guys who poisoned the Channel Islands



 

 

absolutely silly...the Bermuda grass is harming nobody but the poison they are gonna use to kill it will hurt you and me and the animals and insects...

the area is called the Linden- Palm trail and it's the newly installed trail by the Indian themed thing by the beach....the interpretive park...I went to check it out and egads WTF is on the side walk....it looks like Hollywood Boulevard! yikes there's June Van Wingerden's name..she's a teabagger so I stepped on her fifteen motherfucking times!!

Carpinteria can absorb this kinda nonsense from its gov't but it needs to stop...I went to check out the evil Bermuda grass and saw nothing of concern..all the plants seems fine..EXCEPT THE NATIVES ONES!!! THEY ARE ALL DYING hahahah..

the other issue is a water leak from a valve can..the top was off with no safety cone and water was going down the drain moneywise...and saturating the landscape into a muddy mess

this is Matt Roberts, the Parks Director at work... very sloppy and inattentive..how much are they paying this guy??? $100000/year?? to waste water, time and resources killing Bermuda grass??


safety first??

it's just silly..I'll check it out tomorrow to see if anyone fixed the leak, then I'll let City Hall and the council in on the secret: Matt Roberts is not doing the job you pay him to do..and there's still discarded PVC pipes on the bluffs...unused..littering the walking areas!!

Intergated Pest Management my ass....these guys suck at restoring landscapes!