That terrain does look familiar. If it’s not Butte or Yuba or Nevada County, it’s a darn good reasonable facsimile thereof.
Those “legal grows” are for show. The real money is in the illegal grows the cartels are spreading all through the Great State of Jefferson.
Oh you have it nailed. We have illegal grows all over our area here. They come in from out of state and buy a house/property and st up shop. Sometimes authorities find them, sometimes not. The Pot growers ahve placed on the local ballot measures to make their grows legal...five times the citizens of Butte County have voted it down. Personally, I think Butte County’s approach is very measured. It allows private citizens to grow a little bit for “personal” use. It has said NO to pot shops in the county. So if someone wants to grow for personal or medical use then they are able to do so within reason. I think that is fair to the neighbors and to the citizens that want recreational/medicinal marijuana.
We are very tired of out of area pot heads coming to Butte County and bringing crime and what not to the area. We have our own pot heads thank you... That and the homeless problems. One of the big fires this summer was caused supposedly caused by a homeless campfire. Other big fires around us started on properties that had illegal grows because of arguements between various “grow partners.” Tired of it all.
I wouldn’t be surprised if the fires in the foothills weren’t started by the cartels themselves to make more room for their grows. I’m sure those damn trees and horses and cattle and who knows what other wildlife were proving to be nuisance.