Supplemental Pages

Show number 19: Restoring a Park Gone to Pot

Other Press Reports

• Volunteers restore park trashed by marijuana growers
  This is an article Steve wrote on the subject of this week's show for a Bay Area citizen's journalism site.
• Man killed in pot raid -- warden wounded -- Big marijuana haul in Los Gatos hills
  This press report describes the raids on the growers last August. The big news was the shootings during a larger raid the day following the Big Basin raid.
• Man dies during police pot raid
  A reprint in the Monterey Herald of a San Jose Mercury News article.

The Marijuana Cultivation Problem

• National Drug Threat Assessment 2005: Marijuana
  This rather dry report from the U.S Department of Justice is a good source of figures about the amount of marijuana seized in raids on public land.
• A 2003 map of cultivation locations
  This map from a 2003 US-DOJ report shows the locations where the largest amount of marijuana is being farmed on public lands.
• Drug agents can't keep up with pot growers
  This recent article in USA Today illustrates that land managers are currently in a loosing battle with the cultivators.
• Marijuana War Smolders On U.S. Public Lands
  This article from National Geographic from 2003 provides a good overview of the problem.
• Feinstein, Lewis, Radanovich, Bono Seek to Eradicate Marijuana Grown on Public Lands
  A press release on the problem from California Senator Feinstein's web site.
• FIFTY MARIJUANA GARDENS RESTORED
  This article on a National Park Service site talks about the extent of the problem, and the clean-up work in Sequoia National Park.
• NORML Report on U.S. Domestic Marijuana Production
  The National Organization for the Reform of Marijuana Laws (NORML) published this 1998 report on the volume and value of Marijuana production in the U.S.

Big Basin State Park

• Big Basin State Park
  The official state parks site.
• Big Basin Redwoods State Park
  A site maintained by the California State Park Docent volunteers. It's more informative than the official state site.

Volunteer Organizations

• High Sierra Volunteer Trail Crew
  A non-profit group who provided the labor to clean up the mess in Big Basin State park.
• California Conservation Corps
  A State of California sponsored group that provides labor for many marijuana platation clean-ups.