References

You can find out more information about specific pesticides and their effect on the environment and health at the EPA sponsored National Pesticide Information Center website: http://npic.orst.edu/index.html

Mass Audubon’s website has very readable information about mosquitoes and links to their call for policy reform: http://www.massaudubon.org/our-conservation-work/advocacy/priority-legis...

The Xerces Society publishes a comprehensive guide for managing mosquitoes in wetlands: http://www.xerces.org/pesticides/mosquito-management-wetlands

Massachusetts’ Department of Health and Human Service’s Mosquito-borne Diseases webpage is a useful reference for learning more about prevention: http://www.mass.gov/eohhs/gov/departments/dph/programs/id/epidemiology/p...


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