Regulatory Failure in the Lassen County Agriculture Department

Coming Soon: What Is the Ag Department Hiding

The Lassen County Department of Agriculture has quietly issued blanket pesticide permits to timber industry operators—authorizing herbicide spraying and land alteration across thousands of acres without meaningful oversight.

Despite the scale of these operations, the department:

• Conducts no environmental monitoring of the large scale industrial timber projects in Lassen County
• Performs no cumulative impact analysis
• Enables widespread pesticide use with minimal accountability
• Hires attorney Michelle Nasise to obstruct public records from reaching the public

When residents request documentation or ask questions, they’re met with delays, deflection, or silence.

We’ve obtained internal documents. We’ve reviewed the permit codes.
The pattern is clear: Lassen County’s pesticide enforcement system is broken—and the public is being kept in the dark.