Comments on: Cannabis Grow Damage Like ‘Worst Of Timber Industry’ – January 18, 2012

By: Cannabis Grows Draining Water, Polluting Habitat, Razing Forests, Destroying Watersheds | The Arcata Eye

Wed, 08 May 2013 18:03:14 +0000

[...] consensus that more enforcement is needed to respond to the sometimes outrageous destruction being wrought in sensitive watersheds but federal help is limited and it will be expensive for the [...]

By: restoring environmental damage, one criminal at a time | fishing for words

restoring environmental damage, one criminal at a time | fishing for words — Fri, 06 Apr 2012 14:01:22 +0000

[...] roads into these grows and the denuding of hillsides is now seen as having an impact on salmonids equal to that caused at the height of logging in Del Norte, Humboldt, Mendocino, Trinity and Siskiyou counties. The profit margin is huge, and [...]

By: Cam

Cam — Tue, 06 Mar 2012 17:47:05 +0000

Mr. Lovelace should take a look at some aerial photos of Humboldt from the 1960′s and get his perspective straightened out about what the bad old days of the timber industry really looked like. Some folks today are doing damage that needs to addressed, but lets stick with the facts. A study, comparing past and present aerial photos, to determine how much grading and forest conversion is really going on and how much is clearing of existing roads and landings left over from the bad old days. Lots of restorationists have been using just these tools to identify sites for restoration work, so it won’t be hard to find local professionals with the skills for the work.

By: Pot Grows Destroy Fish Habitat – StructureSpot

Pot Grows Destroy Fish Habitat – StructureSpot — Sun, 29 Jan 2012 23:01:17 +0000

[...] reference to one of last week’s cover stories about illegal excavation and un-engineered fill(‘Shocking’ environmental damage from outdoor grows, Eye, Jan. 18) I can attest that the additional input of sediment eroded from grow-related [...]

By: Brad Job: Rapacious Grows Destroy Habitat, Undo Restoration Work – January 29, 2012 | The Arcata Eye

Sun, 29 Jan 2012 05:53:06 +0000

[...] reference to one of last week’s cover stories about illegal excavation and un-engineered fill (‘Shocking’ environmental damage from outdoor grows, Eye, Jan. 18) I can attest that the additional input of sediment eroded from grow-related [...]

By: china rider

china rider — Sat, 28 Jan 2012 17:14:19 +0000

Yes, Joe I believe I know the neighborhood you’re talking about. There are some good people there restoring the land while making a life for their families. Sorry if I generalized everyone as greedy…That same neighborhood also harbors a couple greed-mongers who throw around diesel and punch through crappy roads. I personally know of another 5+ neighborhoods that are similar so I assume nearly all the county is like this by now. There are people I know and love who are good-hearted but environmentally stupid. They do what the neighbors suggest and sometimes this is bad cat-work and pumping from rivers. And they believe they are “loving nature” or whatever! Anyways, the overall picture is destructive from Mendo up to here. How do you knock the big sloppy diesel grows out of the hood without turning them in? When you never ever turn anybody in? Conundrum!

By: kevpod

kevpod — Fri, 27 Jan 2012 22:47:51 +0000

That’s some great insight Joe, thanks. I just wonder when we will get off our asses and legalize it and end this nightmare.

By: Joe humboldt

Joe humboldt — Fri, 27 Jan 2012 22:44:09 +0000

Definitely not because their are a high number of clearcut bulldozed flats as well. My point is we can’t generalize all growers, but they are quite a few who don’t care for anything but money. So this definyely is an issue. If you ever get the chance to fly over humboldt you will see the extent of the problem. But what you won’t see and which is a bigger problem is the indoor diesel generator-powered grows. These need to be dealt with before the accidents happen that are associated with these grows. The fact that the generators are running is a problem in and of itself. The air pollution is a atrocious. It’s not uncommon to see 100k generator rolling on the back of a truck up hwy 36. You know of a medical grow that’s legal with 100- one thousand watt lights?

By: kevpod

kevpod — Fri, 27 Jan 2012 22:16:54 +0000

Joe, would you say that the conscientious environmental conduct by your neighbors is a typical example?

By: Joe humboldt

Joe humboldt — Fri, 27 Jan 2012 22:04:11 +0000

The supervisors have their heads up their asses as usual I live in a marijuana subdivision. All my neighbors that grow got visited by code enforcement a few years ago because of their “illegal grading”. It was all old logging flats cleared out and planted with the herb. the whole subdivision is an old logging property and we have repaired and culverted the road and stopped the sediment from eroding. It the logging companies that paid taxes to shut up the environmentalists now it’s being passed onto the growers.

We inherited this world from our fathers and for the last many generations we’ve been fucking up the earth. You all set the terms of land ownership and we all just want a simple life out here in the hills. It isn’t cheap to live so we have to do something growing weed intelligently can be sustainable…. Logging no fucking way