The U.S. government's grasshopper suppression program dates back to the 1930s, and USDA's Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service (APHIS) has sprayed millions of acres with pesticides to ...

PORTLAND, Ore.— The Xerces Society for Invertebrate Conservation and the Center for Biological Diversity won a lawsuit today against the federal Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service over its ...

A federal judge in Oregon today confirmed the Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service’s legal duty to consider preventative measures — rather than a “spray first, ask questions later” approach — in ...

The federal grasshopper suppression program that has operated on Western public lands for decades needs an update. The current program, managed by the U.S. Animal and Plant Health Inspection ...

The federal government’s grasshopper program dates to the 1930s, when infestations covered millions of acres in 17 western states.

The Oregon Legislature last year allocated $5 million to assess the problem and set up a Mormon cricket and grasshopper “suppression” program. An additional $1.2 million for the program was ...

Environmentalists prevail in lawsuit over feds’ grasshopper suppression program Conservationists accused the Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service of not considering alternatives to the ...

APHIS also offers its plant protection and quarantine program to help ag producers combat grasshoppers. Information: www.aphis.usda.gov or [email protected] .

The federal government’s grasshopper program dates to the 1930s, when infestations covered millions of acres in 17 western states.