I've noticed a trend this year in the MANY Mexican pot farm raids. It's NOT just 'public' lands any more. They've moved on to private properties. They DESTROY the habitat and trees.
Many of these are some of the few lumber companies left in this nation, who now have THEIR property, their crop of trees destroyed, as in the article below. They might complain, file suit against some entity, but no one has listened to lumber people for decades!
They're part of that nasty rural anti enviro freak cabal, after all.
Deputies: We pulled up Mexican cartel's pot
SWEET HOME, Ore. – Deputies raided a marijuana-growing operation they say is linked to a Mexican drug cartel on private timberland in Linn County Thursday.
During the raid they seized nearly 1,000 plants and a pound of marijuana. Detectives had been investigating the growing operation for some time. They say two workers lived in a tent at the site. It appeared they had been living there for a couple months, Mueller said. [I'm told by local sheriff's that these 'migrants' kill every form of wildlife they can find...some they eat, most they just waste....but these guys will get off easier than a native Oregonian killing a deer out of season!]
Detectives had been investigating the growing operation for some time. They say two workers lived in a tent at the site. It appeared they had been living there for a couple months, Mueller said.
http://www.katu.com/news/local/101236874.html
The greatest irony of this entire mess has to be how these local sheriffs MUST enforce Federal drug laws.... but are not allowed to enforce ENDANGERED SPECIES laws, not PROPERTY RIGHTS laws, and certainly not IMMIGRATION LAWS!