I agree with you a 100% BGW
Spraying Roundup or any kind of herbicide in cut-blocks is something I wish they would stop doing all together. the fact it has to be done when conifers go dormant in late summer the deciduous vegetation still actively growing at that time takes up the product and is dead wood with no food value for that winter, Blue berries are especially susceptible to that stuff they never come back no berries and bears gotta eat so no doubt necessitates predation on ungulates in fall.
A few seasons ago a 4 or 5yr old 1000+ acre remote low access cut block I frequented had a population of at least 6 cow and calf pairs as well as 2 resident 1.5 yr old bulls that I would see regularly, the next fall I noticed a sign stapled to a tree stating a herbicide had been used mid august
I hiked the perimeter only thing green were the pine transplants everything else was dead including grass I did find a dead calf moose that had no evidence of being fed upon by anything in one back corner Gotta say I got a bit angry over this 4 years later all that's growing is pine spruce and some tough grasses.
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