Multiple Illegal Marijuana Grows Cleaned Up on National Forest Land in Hayfork Burnt Ranch Area

A delighted team following a successful reclamation operation on National Forest Lands.

A delighted team following a successful reclamation operation on National Forest Lands. [All images from the Integral Ecology Research Center]

Nine separate marijuana grow sites were cleaned up in the Shasta-Trinity and Six Rivers National Forest recently, reports Mourad Gabriel from the Integral Ecology Research Center. Gabriel said, There was “over 6 tons of trash removed and close to 6 miles of irrigation line removed from streams being diverted.”

Marijuana Grow cleanup.

Left: One of several irrigation pipe loads, which were diverting streams.
Right: This trash was cleaned up from one site. [All images from the Integral Ecology Research Center]

The sites were located in the Trinity River and Hayfork Creek watersheds and were areas where a number of species needing protection were located, including Foothill yellow-legged frog, the Pacific fisher, and steelhead trout, as well as chinook and coho salmon.

According to Gabriel, “[A]ll of these sites were either impacting critical habitat for federal and state listed species or directly impacting species of conservation concern due to their footprint.”

Since January 1, the IERC says it has been involved in cleanups of 83 different marijuana cultivation sites. Gabriel says, they have a goal of cleaning up 170 sites.

Gabriel wrote,

This success would not have been possible without the support from the California Department of Fish & Wildlife (CDFW) Cannabis Restoration grant awarded to IERC, and assistance from reclamation partners like the CDFW Law Enforcement Division, The Watershed Center, California Conservation Corps, Trinity County Resource Conservation District, Trinity County Sheriff’s Office, United States Forest Service Law Enforcement and Investigations, and the California Army National Guard.

In addition, all of these sites were either impacting critical habitat for federal and state listed species or directly impacting species of conservation concern due to their footprint.

 

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Big louie
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Big louie
5 years ago

Good job

Chrisbell
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Chrisbell
5 years ago

No one cares humboldt is already to far down hill, legal guys pouring money to cops , but everyone thinks our economy was going to get the money?? Well your wrong the sheriffs bought gas money and a bear cat with that money.. les schwab alone is down a million dollars in Fortuna. Wrap your head around that… that’s only tires , no other business is doing better #byebyehumboldt oh an not to mention all the rats like [edit] an the tattoo gang working with the cops or owing people 100,000$”s of dollars…. #girlswhogrow

RecallRexBohn
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RecallRexBohn
5 years ago
Reply to  Chrisbell

For all of you who are owed money by [edit], check out his Instagram account: @alumilife88 to see what he is spending your money on.

clearlake fool
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clearlake fool
5 years ago

this kind of tax money is well spent
gov. grants come from taxes
well worth it to try to get back to normal in some of those hills

Me
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Me
5 years ago

Keep up the good work! Make the illegal growers pay for the clean up (rrriiiggghhhttt).

Crazy
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Crazy
5 years ago

More like the legal growers are paying for it, glad to see some of the money used for this!!!!!

Big Bang
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5 years ago

Wait a second, I thought weed WAS legal… Might as well sell all the shit you just hauled out with that Bell Long Ranger back to the dirtbags that dumped it there in the first place…When weed is outlawed, only outlaws will… Ummm , something like that…

Jenn
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Jenn
5 years ago
Reply to  Big Bang

Uh, not a long Ranger! It’s a jet ranger.

gunther
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gunther
5 years ago

Where is the Forest Service when all these people are setting up house? I thought they were supposed to protect public property. Don’t they patrol? Stevie Wonder could see what’s going on.

Willie Caso-Mayhem
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5 years ago
Reply to  gunther

Under funded my your potus.

tax payer
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tax payer
5 years ago

the senate has the power of the purse. but if a bird crapped on your car it was probably President Trumps fault

Sparklemahn
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Sparklemahn
5 years ago
Reply to  tax payer

I blame Bush. Trump will be gone soon.

Y Knot?
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Y Knot?
5 years ago
Reply to  Sparklemahn

Crazy….

Reagan’s coming back so Americans don’t have to wear a sweater or get gas according to their license plates.

It’s just how it is….

LostCoastEMP
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LostCoastEMP
5 years ago
Reply to  Sparklemahn

Replaced by another scapegoat imbecile puppet. NWO is faceless

tax payer
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tax payer
5 years ago
Reply to  Sparklemahn

HA HA HA he loves you even if you listen to fake news and hate him

Vausjs
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Vausjs
5 years ago
Reply to  tax payer

You need to quit the fox news

gunther
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gunther
5 years ago

So, there were no illegal grows on Forest Service land while Obama was President? It has nothing to do with money. All you need is a pickup and be awake while driving.

Guest
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Guest
5 years ago

Actually forest service funding has remained flat for the last twenty years as each President had other priorities.

What has happened though is that Trump signed a bill to separate and fund independently a fire suppression fund. “The solution included in the omnibus provides a new funding structure from FY2020 through FY2027. Beginning in FY2020, $2.25 billion of new budget authority is available to USDA and the Department of the Interior. The budget authority increases by $100 million each year, ending at $2.95 billion in new budget authority by FY2027. For the duration of the 8-year fix, the fire suppression account will be funded at the FY 2015 President’s Budget request – $1.011 billion”

So despite the knee jerk reading reporting of liberal press, the funding has not been cut and there is a plan to separate and increase funding for fire fighting in addition. Under Trump.

shak
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shak
5 years ago
Reply to  Guest

That’s awesome news! Thanks for sharing it with us, Guest.

Guest who?
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Guest who?
5 years ago
Reply to  gunther

USFS Law Enforcement would rather sit on the highways, in a turnout, waiting for a truck and trailer full of weed and/or cash.

Mr. Bear
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Mr. Bear
5 years ago
Reply to  Guest who?

Well, it is really easy to catch people that way. They just keep drivin’ by!

Bozo
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Bozo
5 years ago

>”Integral Ecology Research Center”

Eh ? Lotsa’ questions.

Who are they ? Receiving tax monies ? Did they ‘bid’ on the job ?
What salaries are paid to their ‘directors’ ?
Are they able to rent a Bell Jet Ranger helicopter ?

Where are the California ‘conservation crews’ ?
Would be a good job for them, would save taxpayer… er… funds.

Also, what is happening to the stuff that they ‘take out’ ? Garbage dump ?
Might make some money back… maybe $5,000 of plastic pipe.
$25 for each propane cylinder.
$10 for plastic drums.
Put it back to use.

In the napa knowhow
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In the napa knowhow
5 years ago
Reply to  Bozo

This was a grant-funded project, which means scientists at IERC wrote a scientific proposal, but in hard work in pilot data and were awarded the grant based off merit and qualifications. This is not a “contract” where folks bid on a solicitation. Yes, anyone can rent a helicopter and if you are qualified, certified and trained to work under it, then folks can use it.

Bear in mind that ALL of the folks working on this project are non-profits, so no money is made from these efforts and this SAVES the taxpayers TONS! In addition, the press release has the CCC on it, so they appear to be involved. Win Win, no need to complain.

All parties have tried to reuse or recycle the pipe. Can’t do it. As for trash, yes that goes to the landfill, but this is a reason why these efforts are needed. This needs to stop polluting our forests.
Good job all!

dogfood
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dogfood
5 years ago

they recycle pipe for free in Laytonville

Antichrist
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Antichrist
5 years ago

it can be reused. just not all of it. i kow as i have used old water line in the past..

Clean up
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5 years ago

I would enjoy volunteering to help out — it seems they could use the help

Billy Casomorphin
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Billy Casomorphin
5 years ago

“Legal flower” sells at the dispensary for $135/oz. That’s, let’s see, still $2160/lb… Flow Canna, of course, and profits to several pockets on the supply tree, but still OK right?

If they want the outlaw grows to disappear from the forests, somebody is going to have to grow a shitting-big load of weed.

Pot should be free, plant some “Public Pot” today! And grow your own! It’s legal now!

Remember, when the money is out of weed, the harm will be truly gone!

Central HumCo
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5 years ago

It would certainly help the bare nakedness in front of the Emperors Wear No Clothes courthouse.

Get some
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Get some
5 years ago

That’s not true there are two billboards on the freeway in Santa Rosa advertising 50 and sixty dollar ounces, which means they are buying it for half price or close to it. So 400 per pound.

Legallettuce
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Legallettuce
5 years ago

Capitalism, lol, legal flower at a permitted dispensary sells for 30-40 an eighth. Traditional flower sells for 160 to 200 an once in the parking lot of that same dispensary. These are the true numbers in California.

Cross state lines and the number doubles. Hit the right coast and it triples. interesting fact, Humboldt’s brand means something to them they prefer. Yep, I gotta go to New York to be appreciated as a grower of some amazing buds. Sad you negative ninny’s continue to stand in the way of an industry we can and should dominate.

Central HumCo
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5 years ago
Reply to  Legallettuce

Power to the People! Right on.

dogglife
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dogglife
5 years ago
Reply to  Legallettuce

I like arguing with my dog. She always makes valid and articulate points. Plus if the debate gets to heated she’ll lick my face to ease the tension.

Marty
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Marty
5 years ago
Reply to  Legallettuce

Nothing whatever against Humboldt County, but the notion that the area should dominate the market seems a bit backwards. If not for the remote location and the fact of years of prohibition Humboldt County would barely be known for much of anything other than redwoods, beautiful scenery and nice people and perhaps something, something by John Steinbeck..maybe.. (He should have written about the Emerald Triangle, eh? It might have made for interesting fiction.)
No, the places that really should be dominating the markets are places where farms truly thrive like the middle of Iowa or Illinois where corn stalks grow 20 feet high or the Mississippi Delta area, but prohibition and our governmental nonsense for far too many years pushed the market to remote locations where people had to basically hide their businesses to make ends meet. Marijuana grows in most places very well where there’s plenty of sunshine, great soil and flat ground. Perhaps it’s why you don’t see too many fields of amber grain in mountainous areas? Just a thought..

TIRED OF THE B.S.
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TIRED OF THE B.S.
5 years ago

MAKE ALL THE ILLEGAL GROWERS CLEAN UP THE THE ILLEGAL GROW SITES (THEIRS OR NOT) AS PART OF THEIR PUNISHMENT AND FINES, SINCE NOTHING IS EVER COLLECTED

LostCoastEMP
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LostCoastEMP
5 years ago

Um ,most of these massive illegal grows on national forest lands are done by Mexican mafia illegals for decades now. Nothing new.

Divide by Zero
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Divide by Zero
5 years ago
Reply to  LostCoastEMP

Correct, and maybe the wall isn’t a bad idea.

Bell Springs
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Bell Springs
5 years ago

Off topic, but does anyone know about Bell Springs power outage?

Central HumCo
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5 years ago
Reply to  Kym Kemp

Planned maintenance – but they didn’t bother to tell the people that the outage effects? It’s nighttime for Pete’s sake.

And all the king’s horses and all the king’s men . . .

Lost Croat Outburst
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Lost Croat Outburst
5 years ago
Reply to  Bell Springs

Um . . . . Ah. . . . no problem, you can break in anytime.

Y Knot?
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Y Knot?
5 years ago

Veal Parmesan Sandwich….

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=ytW7ufrdh7o

Yeah….

Silverlining
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Silverlining
5 years ago

Last I checked the Redway dump requires water line to be chopped down a lot smaller than that.

Central HumCo
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5 years ago

Fear & Loathing In The Belly of the Beast
Earth Changes Bulletin December 14, 2018, MW Mandeville (Black Canyon City, Arizona)

Phoenix Five Report Item: The majority of France: “It’s over, this globalism, this absurd EU…Macron government must go”.

A very interesting conversation about what is going on with the French. CE ‘s Joe Martino makes many excellent points which are worth pondering even if you disagree with some of his views. which I do. He does understand the essential story…..

Essentially, the Yellow Vest movement in France is a movement supported by 70% of the population and is expressed increasingly aggressively as their collective statement: Enough is Enough, this Globalist crap must go. An excellent summary by a Yellow Vest protester is shown from about minute 15.30. It is well worth catching at least that.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OAWOg8Ji8Ik

ONE OF THE KEY POINTS TO GRASP : The media is hyper on showing chaos and violence in Paris and focusing on property destruction and fires in a small section of the city..

That misses almost all the phenom. People throughout France are grouping at intersections and standing in the roads. The truckers are stopping their rigs in inconvenient places, further blocking the roads. Masses of people are simply shutting down the country with no violence. French groups have used this tactic before, esp. the farmers. They do intend to oust the Globalist government and I would put a big bet that they will default support the military to physically kick Macron out of the country if he does not resign.

Yellow Vest groups in Brussels have actually attempted to also storm the EU buildings. Belgium, which houses the EU, might end up kicking the entire EU government out of their country.

Why is this happening? There is NO honest political communication, discussion, and interaction in the European news media and political/governmental institutions. It is all severely repressed. Meanwhile, the Iway has given people the perspective that they mainly feel the same way about the tyranny and have spontaneously decided to kick it in the ass.

While the rather timid British continue to wrangle over how to “exit” the EU, the French and the Belgians may kick it so hard it no longer is breathing.

A major concern at this time is the huge Trojan which sits in France. There are apparently a few million Muslim “refugees” in France, a great many of which are military age young men. Can they be activated by the Globalist crime cliques to physically oppose the Yellow Vests? If so, they could end up making the entire affair in France quite bloody indeed. At the moment, however, I doubt the Globalist plotters are stupid enough to set that in motion. I guess it highly likely that they will try first to starve the French economy into a deep depression.

I suspect that the Germans and Swedes will awkwardly and slowly begin to follow the French out of the EU Bubble.

Rule of Law not Leftists
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Rule of Law not Leftists
5 years ago
Reply to  Central HumCo

You’re speaking stuff the average American is clueless about. Most can’t even get out of their illusionary beliefs concerning politics and it’s just about their team winning. Further, the dumbing down of Americans education and the constant propaganda from the parties and media make it so the majority are divided by extremist beliefs. So unfortunately the Globalists have won here and can control framing the message such that ignorance abounds. Just look at the protests going on here, if you’re not with those authoritarian calling themselves antifascists or some other leftist media darling then your a right wing extremist like the media is calling the Yellow Vests, and our useful idiot countrymen are doing is protesting immigration and other stupid stuff like statues which is meant to distract the general populace.

Central HumCo
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5 years ago

I know. History repeats itself because too few are listening. But you can’t blame a girl for trying.

Guest
Guest
Guest
5 years ago
Reply to  Central HumCo

Try thinking about what victory looks like. If victory is making everyone look at you in awe over your astounding rightness and saying so, well, good luck with that. You’ll never see it. If, on the other hand, victory is actually nudging a few individuals a bit in the direction you want or at least making them a little more cautious to go in the direction you don’t want, then that is within the grasp a poster to the comments section of a local news site. You just have to be able to recognize a victory when you get it, no matter how small. It doesn’t include someone crying “uncle.” And it should be celebrated with silence, not doubling down until defeat is snatched from the jaws of victory.

Central HumCo
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5 years ago
Reply to  Guest

I applaud your stance Guest, and will add – to adopt an attitude of defeat before freedom loving men and women have exhausted all potential remedies for this mind-control is inexcusable. The people will decide victory or defeat.

shak
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shak
5 years ago
Reply to  Central HumCo

Belgium’s PM resigned. (after signing the treaty).
Shills are trying to convince readers that any treaty, law, or bill that is not in pursuance of their constitution is the law of the land lol.
The protesters are pretty smart, though, they’ll educate those shills and their gullible followers in time.
If their constitution doesn’t preserve, defend and protect their constitution, then they’ll be quick to amend it so that it does. Enuff is Enuff they yell.
https://twitter.com/KTHopkins/status/1075119380030218240

Central HumCo
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5 years ago
Reply to  shak

I was glad to read this yesterday shak. Did you see where queen E. is stepping down?

Not the quote i’ve been searching for, but just as good:

The American Founding was the last act of civic humanism.22 The Founders
confronted what Pocock termed a “Machiavellian moment,” in which
consciousness of the mortality of a political order emerges and either choices
are made to address the order’s instability or the problem is ignored with
deleterious consequences.
22 J.G.A. POCOCK, THE MACHIAVELLIAN MOMENT: FLORENTINE POLITICAL THOUGHT AND THE ATLANTIC REPUBLIC TRADITION 462–67.

shak
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shak
5 years ago
Reply to  Central HumCo

No, CH, I haven’t read any ‘official’ reports yet, but I’ve certainly heard many rumors that she will be handing over the reigns to Prince C.

The list of those who will not return is long.

Teegan
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Teegan
5 years ago

Not much diversity in that cleanup crew. I think we have a problem.

ignorance is bliss
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ignorance is bliss
5 years ago
Reply to  Teegan

Yep, one photo and I sure can make an informed decision regarding these efforts. I mean, look at the websites for IERC, CCC, and the Watershed Center, they don’t have no diversity (facetious). Don’t dirty blanket a good effort with your ignorant comments.

Teegan
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Teegan
5 years ago

I see 3 photos.

Big Bang
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5 years ago

The 4 seaters were Jet Rangers, the 6 seat version was the Long Ranger, still a jet (turbine), still a Ranger, but longer.

Brian
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Brian
5 years ago

This week’s trinity journal scanner reports say that on Dec 11, 1048 lbs were seized on highway 36.

On Dec 12, “several thousand” pounds were seized on 299 @ Douglas city after a k9 alert during traffic stop.

Fyi.