Three-quarters of California's forestry glyphosate use occurs on private land

Cumulative glyphosate acre-treatments on forest land in California, 2023

Applications were classified by ownership using application location and land-ownership data. Treatments that could not be confidently assigned an ownership type are shown as undetermined. Acreage represents cumulative acre-treatments, not unique acres; an acre treated more than once during the year is counted once for each treatment. National Forest category includes a negligible amount of other public forest land.
Chart: The Breakthrough InstituteSource: California Department of Pesticide Regulation, 2023 Pesticide Use Reporting data; California DPR PLSS data; CAL FIRE California Land Ownership; Breakthrough Institute analysis.Get the data