Stop the Spray Ontario

10/15/2026

HOW WOULD YOU EXPLAIN THIS TO YOUR CHILDREN? 🪧💔

A father took his 12-year-old son into their traditional hunting area, where they saw a man putting up herbicide warning signs. When the boy read that the berries weren't to be eaten until 2027, he became very upset. His father explained that the spraying was all about money, and that those responsible didn't care how it affected nature.

These were his son's exact words:

"I hate the frigging Government for ruining our lands and animals."

Twelve years old. 💔

For DECADES, Indigenous communities have been fighting to protect their traditional lands, hunting grounds, traplines, wildlife and watersheds from forestry herbicide spraying. And now another generation is growing up witnessing what their parents and grandparents have been fighting against.

In a video we recently posted, David Flood said, "It's going to take ALL OF US to stop the spray."

Quebec didn't end forestry herbicide spraying because a handful of people in the north objected. It took widespread public opposition.

Please SHARE this story and keep spreading awareness. Most people in Ontario still have no idea this is happening in our PUBLIC forests. And until they know, how can we expect them to help stop it?

🫐🍓🐝🫎🐻🦊🐸 StopTheSprayCanada.ca

10/13/2026

Herbicide spraying after logging continues in the name of “cost-effective” timber production. There is nothing sustainable about managing our public forests for the benefit of one industry, despite decades of public opposition and at the expense of everything else that depends on them. Another powerful interview with David Flood of Matachewan First Nation. Worth watching!

What happens to Northern Ontario's forests when helicopters spray glyphosate after logging? And what is the real cost to our wildlife, water, food sources, and

10/12/2026

What are YOU most thankful for about Ontario’s forests? 🍁🌲

This Thanksgiving, we’re thankful for the forests, lakes, wildlife, and wild places that make Northern Ontario so special. 🇨🇦

Most of all, we’re thankful for YOU — every person who follows, shares, comments, asks questions, speaks up, and helps spread the message.

Protecting our forests and waterways is something we can all be part of. Every conversation matters. Every voice matters. Every share helps keep the discussion going.

From everyone at Stop The Spray Ontario, we wish you and your family a safe, happy, and peaceful Thanksgiving! 🦃🍂❤️

Tell us in the comments: What part of Ontario’s outdoors are you most thankful for?

10/11/2026

What happens to wildlife when we kill off the plants they depend on for food? Especially fruit producing plants like blueberries and raspberries?

This area was logged and then sprayed with chemical herbicides about five years ago.

I fly over this country every few days, and since then I haven’t seen a moose or a bear in this area. Maybe they passed through, but without food there was no reason to stay…

We hear plenty about hunters being blamed when wildlife populations decline. But what about habitat and the chemicals being applied to that habitat?

There is published research raising concerns about glyphosate and glyphosate-based herbicides affecting reproductive systems, hormones and fertility in animal studies. That doesn’t prove forestry spraying is causing miscarriages in wild moose or bears—but it certainly raises questions that deserve serious, independent study.

And there’s another issue that doesn’t require a laboratory to understand: when you kill broadleaf plants and shrubs, raspberries and blueberries, you’re removing food that wildlife depends on.

If we’re serious about declining wildlife populations, shouldn’t we be examining all the pressures on them—hunting, habitat alteration, food availability and herbicide use?

What are you seeing in areas that have been sprayed compared with areas that haven’t?



Location - https://maps.app.goo.gl/bFEW9aPRJ1U29C967?g_st=ic

Mileage 6 - 1001 road off the 101 Highway

Documented - October 10, 2026 Joel Theriault

10/08/2026

📣FRENCH-SEVERN FOREST 2029–2039: PUBLIC CONSULTATION NOW OPEN!

For decades, people have been demanding an end to chemical herbicide spraying in Ontario's public forests. Indigenous Communities have formally opposed it since the 1980s. Municipalities are now standing with Indigenous Leadership, passing resolutions demanding change. ✊ 21 in and arround the French-Severn.

Here's what we know about the FRENCH-SEVERN FOREST:

2024: Aerial spraying postponed to build a larger, more "cost-effective" spray program.
2025: 200 hectares ground sprayed with Garlon RTU (triclopyr).
2026: WHERE IS THE POSTPONED AERIAL SPRAY PROGRAM? Was it carried out in 2026, postponed again, or is an even larger area still awaiting treatment? 🤷🏻‍♀️

So we still can't get clear information about this year's spraying, yet we're being asked to comment on the NEXT TEN YEARS of forest management. 🙄

📧 SEND YOUR COMMENTS TO:

[email protected]
[email protected]
[email protected]

SUBJECT: French-Severn Forest 2029-2039 - Official Notice of Non-Consent and Demand to End Chemical Forestry

COPY AND PASTE EMAIL:

I am submitting this public comment as my formal objection and Notice of Non-Consent to chemical herbicide use in the French-Severn Forest.

I do not consent to continued chemical herbicide spraying in our public forests.

I demand that all chemical site preparation and chemical tending be removed from the French-Severn Forest 2029–2039 Forest Management Plan.

Our forests, watersheds, wildlife and communities deserve protection, not more chemical exposure. Eight Ontario Forest Management Units are already operating without chemical herbicide spraying, and Québec ended herbicide spraying in its public forests in 2001. Ontario has had 25 years to modernize it's forestry practices.

Please place this formal objection on the official public consultation record and confirm receipt.

Thank You,

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OFFICIAL MNR POSTING: https://nrip.mnr.gov.on.ca/s/information-posting?recordId=a2qOK000001w6SfYAI

To view EVERY forest currently open for public comment, visit:

https://stopthespraycanada.ca/forests

DISCLAIMER: This map is not to scale, and municipality markers are approximate.
I'm a volunteer, not a cartographer. 😆

The dots might not be perfect, but the resolutions are real! https://stopthespraycanada.ca/municipalities

10/03/2026

https://www.biinaagami.org/traditional-ecological-knowledge-elders-say-glyphosate-kills-all

The TEK Elders behind the movement to stop the spray of glyphosate on Anishinaabe land.

10/01/2026

UPDATED ONTARIO HERBICIDE MAP

Good news from Red Lake Forest - I heard back directly, and they DID NOT spray this year. 🧡 So I’ve updated the map.

This takes a LOT of work. I still never heard back from many forests that didn’t list “hectares” in their Annual Work Schedules, but I’ll keep digging, emailing and checking the actual forest information.

Why does spraying toxic herbicides over the forests continue after over 40 years of opposition? Because it's cheaper and more convenient for the Lumber corps. 💰💰

But “cost-effective” does not answer the bigger questions.

What about the pollinators, fish, animals and their habitat?
Forest foods and berries?
Watersheds? 🤢
Indigenous rights?
Wildfire risk? 🌲🌲🌲🌲🔥
Biodiversity?
And what kind of forests are we leaving behind?

We should have learned something from DDT. A chemical being approved for use does not mean public concern should be brushed aside.

This is 2026 - not the 1960s.

🟥 Red = spraying
🟩 Green = spray-free / no chemical tending
🟧 Orange = no spraying confirmed in 2025 & 2026

Pic Forest (1-year plan) and White River Forest (10-year plan) are currently open for public comments on the webpage -

StopTheSprayCanada.ca/forests

09/30/2026

🌲 Can you spot the tree farms?

Rows of straight conifers have replaced what were once diverse native forests.

From above, the difference can be striking: uniform rows, similar-aged trees, and simplified forests compared with the mix of species, ages, and structure found in natural forests.

👀 Look closely—can you tell which areas are tree farms and which are naturally regenerated forest?

👇 What differences do YOU notice first?



Location - https://maps.app.goo.gl/8N7ktLY4hH5o6dft7?g_st=ic

Documented - September 30, 2026

09/30/2026

Today is the National Day for Truth and Reconciliation - A national day set aside to honour the children who never returned home, Survivors of residential schools, their families and communities.

It is also Orange Shirt Day, reminding us that Every Child Matters.

But reconciliation has to mean more than words.

Canada has written Aboriginal and treaty rights into Section 35. Canada has adopted UNDRIP into federal law. Ontario writes that forest management will respect Aboriginal and treaty rights and cultural values.

Those are important words, but respect is not measured by how often governments write the words - Rights, Respect, Consultation and Reconciliation.

It is measured by what GOVERNMENTS DO.

For decades, Indigenous people have stood up for their forests, forest foods, waters, medicines, wildlife and treaty rights while herbicides continue to be used in public forests and treaty territories.

“Respect Anishinaabe Law.”
“Be a Good Treaty Partner.”
“Our Children Deserve Medicine, Not Chemicals.”
"Herbicides Hurt"

Formal Indigenous opposition to forest herbicide spraying dates back to 1989. https://stopthespraycanada.ca/resolutions

In 1999, the Senate of Canada documented the importance of the boreal forest to Indigenous Peoples and recommended that herbicide and chemical pesticide use in the boreal forest be phased out ASAP.

Respect is something you DO.

Reconciliation has to mean more than words.

Every child matters.
Their land matters.
Their water matters.
Their food matters.
Their medicines matter.
Their future matters.

09/30/2026

🌲 Are we protecting Northern Ontario’s forest diversity—or replacing it?

Northern Ontario’s boreal forests are naturally diverse landscapes, with mixtures of spruce, pine, fir, poplar, birch and other vegetation creating habitat for wildlife and supporting complex forest ecosystems.

After harvesting, however, some areas are managed toward conifer-dominated regeneration. Herbicides may be applied to suppress competing deciduous trees and vegetation, giving planted or naturally regenerating conifers a competitive advantage.

The result raises an important question: Are we restoring a natural forest—or simplifying a diverse forest ecosystem into something that increasingly resembles a conifer plantation?

People deserve to understand how our forests are being regenerated and what repeated vegetation-management practices could mean for biodiversity, wildlife habitat and the forests future generations inherit.

👇 What do you think? Should forest regeneration prioritize mixed-species forests rather than conifer-dominated stands?