 The new move to deal with the mexican drug cartel and the marijuana grows on US land, is to legalize it. They forget that it needs water and land and due to illegal aliens we now have water shortages in the very areas where it is grown. In addition , closing the borders and enforcing immigrations isn't even mentioned. Thirdly, now that Indians on reservations and others know they can use public lands to grow marijuana , why would they want to go legit? Why wouldn't the cartel switch to cocaine or opium? Portland depends upon water from Bull Run, and if the mexicans grow marijuana there with rat poisen and herbicides , Portland will no longer have water.  |
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| marijuana retrieved by police in Oregon from Illegal mexican drug dealers http://tiny.cc/rmittw http://tiny.cc/dxittw |
although they don't come out and say Illegal Mexicans or Mexican Drug Cartel in this article, most likely for personal safty , it is well known that it is the mexicans who are the ones ruining our land for their own greed. Rodent poisen is what the nazis used in their concentration camps to kill their prisoners.
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| guns taken from Illegal mexican drug trafficers in Oregon- the growers have weapons and will use them if an American wanders onto one of their plantations. |
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| marijuana plants taken from illegal mexican growers by police in oregon |
one of the many marijuana plantations on US land in Oregon found by hikers |
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| another illegal mexican , can we say mexican drug cartel? illegal mexicans who deal drugs? |
A workshop on March 14 to educate foresters, wildlife biologists, and forest landowners on improving wildlife habitat
PORTLAND, Ore. - Harm to water and wildlife caused by rodent poison and other chemicals used at illegal marijuana plantations is the keynote topic of a "Wildlife in Managed Forests" workshop in Albany on March 14.
Mourad Gabriel, a doctoral candidate at University of California, Davis, is the keynote lunch speaker at the Wildlife in Managed Forests: Practical Tools Workshop. The day-long event is for foresters, wildlife biologists, and forest landowners seeking ways to improve habitat on private timberland.
Gabriel and his team found that in California more than 80 percent of fishers--a forest mammal in the weasel family--had exposure to highly toxic rodent poisons. Gabriel also reports that thousands of pounds of high-nitrogen fertilizer and other agricultural chemicals used to grow marijuana in remote parts of the forest are a potential threat to water quality.
What: Wildlife in Managed Forests: Practical Skills Workshop
When: Thursday, March 14, 8 a.m. to 5 p.m.
Where: Linn County Fair and Expo, 3700 Knox Butte Road E., Albany
" snip...angry mexicans who are unhappy to see him. They're marijuana growers, illegally using federal and tribal lands in remote, hard-to-reach locations.from a site where saying Illegal aliens from Mexico or open borders or mexican drug cartel is forbidden:
..."And their reactions to seeing him may range from yelling at him to brandishing their pistols or Kalashnikov rifles and posting his home address on a cannabis blog -- along with the ominous observation that "snitches end up in ditches." Gabriel isn't with the Drug Enforcement Administration or any other law enforcement agency. He's a wildlife disease ecologist nearing the completion of his doctorate at the University of California, Davis, who has spent a decade studying fishers -- furry, elegant predators the size of large house cats. Fishers once roamed our northwestern forests in abundance, but their numbers have dwindled dramatically in the region.
Now Gabriel, 38, believes he has unlocked the mystery as to what's keeping this species from bouncing back. And his discovery, alas, is what has outlaw pot growers reaching for their guns "I'm not focused on the pot plants," Gabriel says. "What makes my blood boil is the environmental damage being done on public land."recalls. "I couldn't imagine how that had happened, since fishers live far from cities or farm fields."
Hit hard by fur trapping and the logging of the forests they favor, fishers had all but vanished from their historic range by the early twentieth century. Gabriel describes them as an "umbrella species," meaning that they tend to be good indicators of their ecosystem's overall health. By studying the remaining fishers closely, biologists can get a sense of how other members of their ecosystem are faring.
In 2004 Gabriel was engaged in a study of predators on land owned by the Hoopa tribe in northern California's Humboldt County. To his surprise, the fisher population on the reservation had declined precipitously in the years since a survey was made in the 1990s. Gabriel knew that fishers need mature forest to survive: they rest and raise their young inside the cavities found in the trunks of very old trees. The reservation still boasted plenty of ancient oaks, chinquapins, and Douglas firs. Why, he wondered, weren't more fishers living there?
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Some of the fishers we were radio-tracking had died of rodenticide poisoning," Gabriel
He made the connection to industrial-scale marijuana farms after some members of the Hoopa tribal police showed him photos of grow sites they had dismantled after raids. Pesticide containers were scattered across the landscape, their poison baits marked with countless scratches made by the gnawing teeth of mice and rats. The pot growers, it soon became clear, were spreading large amounts of rodenticide around their plants to protect them from tiny pests. The rodents were living for several days after eating the poison -- just long enough to be preyed on by fishers.that 10.5 pounds (the amount he found at one of the first sites he studied) is enough to kill 12,542 deer mice or 1,792 wood rats -- and anywhere from 5 to 28 fishers. Over the next eight years, on both Hoopa and national forest land, the rodenticide-linked casualties kept piling up.
Gabriel began to document the stunning quantities of rodenticide that were peppering the 144 square miles of the Hoopa reservation. On one grow site near the reservation, 90 pounds were discovered. He calculates
In addition to legal pesticides that are already in wide use, significant amounts of banned pesticides, including DDT and carbofuran, have been found at abandoned sites. Gabriel
has also seen signs of illegal clearcutting and stream diversion. "No law seems to sway them, mexicans , Indians alike he says.
His research has led him to conclude that the same rodenticides killing fishers pose a grave threat all the way up the forest food chain. If the problem is left unaddressed, he says, the result could be a biologically devastated forest -- one where no fisher or bobcat hunts and no bird sings.
As he continues with his research, he has also begun collaborating with a group that works to clean up contamination at dismantled grow sites.
"The rogue pot industry is a human problem," he says. "And we're going to need a human solution."
such as enforcing immigration laws, closing the borders, bringing the troops back from Iraq and placing them on the border with Mexico.
Instead, ICE under Obama's orders released 10,000 illegal mexicans in the last month, and drug dealers are no longer arrested, they are ticketed and released, which with mexicans means never to return..
The workshop is co-sponsored by the Society of American Foresters, the Oregon Forest Resources Institute and the Wildlife Society. Registration is $45 to $50, depending on membership. Download workshop information at www.forestry.org/media/docs/or/2013%20wildlife_workshop_flyer_FINAL.pdf
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