HATEFUL ACTIONS HAVE
CONSEQUENCES, UPDATING
CURRICULUM TO MAKE IT MORE
RELEVANT.
NEW ATTACK ON ILLEGAL POT
FARMS THAT ARE POISONING THE
ENVIRONMENT KILLING ANIMALS AND
NOW POSSIBLY POISONING HUMANS.
GOING FROM PRISTINE TO BEING
KILLING ZONES.
Reporter: U.S. FOREST
SERVICE SAYS EVERY YEAR ACRES
AND ACRES OF MARIJUANA ARE
ILLEGALLY PLANTED ON LAND.
WE HAVE DETAILS ON THE JOINT
EFFORT TO SHUTDOWN THE
PRACTICE.
WELL, CHRISTINA, TONA, AN
ISSUE THE OFFICIALS ARE CALLING
URGENT.
THE DEVASTATING EFFECTS ON
WATER, ANIMALS AND HUNTERS.
THE ATTORNEY GENERAL SAYS THAT
IT IS A PROBLEM AND THEY CAN
NOT FIX IT WITHOUT A PLAN.
IT IS A DANGER TO PUBLIC
SAFETY AND OUR LAND AND TO OUR
WILDLIFE.
FOR 20 YEARS THE NATIONAL
FOREST SERVICE HAS AVERAGE OF
400 ILLEGAL POT GROWS A YEAR.
THAT IS MORE THAN ONE EVERY
DAY.
IT IS HAVING A DEVASTATED
EFFECT ON OUR NATIONAL FOREST.
THE ATTORNEY SAYS THE PROBLEM
IS NOW MUCH WORSE THANKS TO A
PESTICIDE.
IT IS ILLEGAL FOR ALL-
PURPOSES IN THE STATE OF
CALIFORNIA FOR APPROXIMATELY 10
YEARS.
EVERYTHING THAT COMES IN
CONTACT WITH IT DIES.
SCOTT SAYS THE DRUG CARTELS
ARE NOT USING IT AS A PESTICIDE
BUT TO KILL ANIMALS TO KEEP
THEM FROM EATING MARIJUANA
PLANTS.
IT IS A GAME CHANGER.
IT IS A POISON.
HALF OF THE SOIL TESTED BY THE
FOREST SERVICE IS CONTAMINATED
WITH THE PEST SIDES.
PUSHING 2 TO THE BRINK OF
EXTINCTION.
THE PACIFIC FISSURE AND THE
SPOTTED OW STPHRAORBGS ABOUT
70% HAS BEEN EFFECTED BY THE
SAME GROWTH SITES.
TRICKLE-DOWN EFFECTS
CONTAMINATED WATER AND FOR
HUNTERS CONTAMINATED GAINS.
IT IS CATASTROPHE.
WHAT IS THE SOLUTION?
CALIFORNIA NATIONAL GUARD IS
ADDING 70 MORE AGENTS TO THE
COUNTER DRUG TASK FORCE AND
THEY SAY THEY ARE READY TO WORK
WITH LOCAL LAW ENFORCEMENT TO
PUSH OUT ILLEGAL GROWERS FOR
GOOD.
THERE IS SOMETHING THAT WILL
EFFECT ALL OF US.
AND, TO GET TO IT,.
Reporter: THE OFFICIALS SAY
CALIFORNIA NOW PRODUCES MORE
MARIJUANA THAN MEXICO AND MOST
