If Cal Trans really wants to help prevent fire, manual removal of combustible vegetation will provide fire breaks, not broadcast spraying, which leaves dead and dying plants on the ground as fodder for fires.

I'm very pleased that they are reducing their spraying by 50%, but would really like to see 100%. My concern is that these herbicides are non-toxic until there are grave consequences then suddenly they are toxic; and by that time we're bathed in them. How Roundup went from being low toxicity and almost completely biodegradable to a carcinogen implicated in birth defects, endocrine disruption, lymphoma, altered gut biome, low sperm count, etc. is stark and recent example of this.

Who knows what ills the other herbicides are causing. Of course the manufacturers' studies will show nothing bad...

Let's use methods that we KNOW are not toxic. Mowing, mulching and native planting.