Drug Cartel on Public Land

[dirtclod Az.]

Cartels,Mafia...You guys been smokin' too much rope!Ha!,Ha!

 

[*zap*]

Best to give drug grow sites a wide berth and just live a drug free life.

 

[Pacific_Fork]

Ive came across a ton of sign in Azone forest, BLM, and wilderness. I emptied a box of bird shot into two brand new xlarge bundles of irrigation hose and reported it.

 

[ethan]

About 12 years ago my wife and I and a buddy and his wife backpacked in for an overnighter to a place we hunt. We spent an uneventful couple of days nd hiked out. This was early August as I recall. A couple months later my buddy found what was left of a camp about 150 yards from where we were camped. There was lots empty cans of food, water containers, etc... He hiked out and reported it and was told there was a grow operation there and they had been busted. Kind of scary to think we were asleep in tents completely unaware just a couple hundred yards away.

 

[cmahoney]

Definitely, they are all over B zone. Most of the time they have harvested and left by rifle season. You will smell them if they haven’t harvested and left yet. Once they pull their plants they will vacate the grow site until they come back in spring


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[Marmots]

I came across a small spread of plants on a state game area in Michigan. There was a trail camera high on a tree aimed at the spread.

I didn't know if the camera belonged to growers or law enforcement so I made a huge show of waving my orange hat and my brace of dead squirrels in front of it to exonerate myself.

 

[BK Ammenwerth]

Coming from a guy born and raised in Humboldt I can tell you it’s true. Water facing south with lightly mixed overhead canopy. Yup you’ll run into grows. Some growers aren’t the weapon toting types others are. You just never know.

 

[Blinginpse]

I could trip and fall in a bed of this stuff not even know what it is. Glad of it too

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[cmahoney]

I could trip and fall in a bed of this stuff not even know what it is. Glad of it too

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It smells like a skunk farm from mid summer until they harvest.


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[Jjamesdean]

While hunting one afternoon, I found one on public land in the Missouri ozarks. Nice and groomed. When I came out at dark there was a vehicle hiding in the woods behind mine. I touched my brakes to start my motor and saw the reflection of the vehicle ceeping up to mine... just a few feet from my rear bumper. They chased me all the way to town, where I pulled into the P.D., even though there was no one there (small, 1-P.D. car town). They left. I reported it and led the drug task force to the acess road with a map. They recovered/destroyed quite a bit of $ worth. The family that lived up to the edge of that spot were suspect. A member of that family stabbed and killed a guy a few weeks later and went to the "pokey".

I live in the Ozarks, which town was this close too? I have heard of this happening frequently


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[Gulfgoose]

Think I'd take the grows over what we've dealt with in south Texas. Nothing like being woken up by search helicopter spot lights. People that don't have to deal with the cartels, etc. have no idea just how bad it really is.

 

[KHNC]

We found where the mesicans had poly pipe, solar water pumps and harvested plants behind several private vineyards near Clear lake. I was turkey hunting with a buddy that lived out there. He said they are all over. These were small scale operations. He said the big operations are farther in the mountains, usually with working dogs for guards. The dogs typically get abandoned once the crop is harvested. My buddy was with animal control in the area and had to deal with the dogs occasionally.

 

[dirtclod Az.]

When my landlord was busted in he Muir Woods they had to use a helicopter to retrieve all the plants,there was just too many plants for the officers to even think about carrying out on foot,or even in trucks.Thats why he spent 4yrs in the pokey.

 

[Kootenay Hunter]

Both my wife and I have come across illegal crops in BC (south facing mountain slope are prime grow locations)...some are booby trapped, have cameras, and are patrolled by shotgun toting dude on atvs. Others are just well hidden.

You never know who's running the show and you could be funny and pull a few plants and take pictures, but to me it's not worth it and I just stay clear and report the coordinates once I get home.

The black market is still alive and well in BC despite legalization...the hills are alive with bud...

 

[Azone]

For those of you who have never seen one this is what they look like. This is a grow about a mile from a spot I frequently hunt.
Legalization is not going to do squat as far as deterring illegal grows. Sadly anymore it's just another problem to worry about when you go hunting out here.

 

[cmahoney]

Here is what they look like in August

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[MallardSX2]

I killed a hog one time that was pushing a cooler full of what I presumed to be Meth around the woods. I shot the hog and didnt touch the cooler because I didnt want it to explode. I told a local cop about it but the cooler and the scumbags camp was still there the next time I went back. Pretty standard for the meth heads to use coolers to cook their meth in the national forest.

 

[Antarctica]

Not public land, but...

Years ago I took a job out in Santa Rosa California. While finding a boat to live on, I stayed at a small motel out in Occidental, and would eat dinner at the local bar/restaurant. One night, I started talking an older lady sitting next me - she mentioned that she was going on vacation for two weeks. Roughly two weeks later, she and I are back in the same place eating. I asked how her vacation was, and she rolled her eyes, said it turned into a huge mess and related the following:

She'd had a guy renting a small place to live on her property, which is in the heart of redwood country. The cops, doing aerial surveys, detected a different shade (i.e., the 'wrong shade') in her redwoods, and found pot plants 250 feet up in the canopy. The guy she was renting to was growing in the tops of the redwoods (going up at night to water), and of course, there was some question about her involvement, which cut her vacation short and caused quite a bit of headache before she was cleared.

 

[jspradley]

I killed a hog one time that was pushing a cooler full of what I presumed to be Meth around the woods. I shot the hog and didnt touch the cooler because I didnt want it to explode. I told a local cop about it but the cooler and the scumbags camp was still there the next time I went back. Pretty standard for the meth heads to use coolers to cook their meth in the national forest.

Should've shot the cooler and got video of the methed out hog...

 

[Sticknstring]

The cartel grows out in cali have dropped off big time, law enforcement flys and is really on it with google earth. Cartels tend to grow on land managed by the state that does not allow hunting, allows them to not worry about folks off trail since its "against the law" to go off trail in many of those places. Be safe, carry a sidearm and as far as man traps...its unlikely you'll encounter anything like that with the price if cannabis at an all time low..its a numbers game anyway for those guys.