Certified private applicators, as defined by federal law, are private property owners or their employees who apply restricted-use pesticides to their own properties, or properties they rent, for the purposes of producing an agricultural commodity. This encompasses farms, ranches, forests, greenhouses, and nurseries. The 1990 Farm Bill, also known as the Food, Agriculture, Conservation, and […]
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Special Wildlife Programs
The “Services”: 1. U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (U.S. Dept. of the Interior) 2. National Marine Fisheries Service (U.S. Dept. of Commerce) The Endangered Species Act (ESA) of 1973 and its subsequent amendments comprise the major federal legislation that protects not only threatened or endangered wild plants and animals, but also critical habitats and ecosystems […]