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  • n  a white crystalline insecticide that has low toxicity for mammals; is used in home gardens; extracted from the roots of derris and cube

  • The preferred pesticides are "botanicals," or natural poisons extracted from plantsfor example, nicotine sulphate, rotenone and pyrethrum.
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  • Controversy surrounds Sierra stream poisoning
    By Louis Sahagun, Los Angeles Times WALKER — State fisheries biologist Dave Lentz poured poison into a remote High Sierra stream and watched quietly as every rainbow and golden trout in the water turned belly up. After the rotenone spread along 11 miles of Silver [...]
    Sept. 3, 2013 - Lake Tahoe News

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