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Re: [RC] Interesting article on Spread of Weeds by Horses - rdcarrieYes, pot is quite the cash crop in the Pacific NW. When I was living in Oregon, there was speculation that it was the number one revenue-producing "crop" in the state, outstripping even the timber industry. <G> When deer hunting in the Oregon Coast Range, we'd occasionally come across patches of "product" growing in the National Forest. We'd casually turn and go the other direction, not wanting to risk the booby traps and possible armed guards.
I've come across an occasional small patch in the Nat. Forest here in Texas, but nothing on the scale of what we'd find in Oregon.
Dawn in East Texas -----Original Message----- From: Kristen A Fisher <kskf@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> To: KimFue@xxxxxxx; ridecamp@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Sent: Wed, 22 Feb 2006 09:28:47 -0600 Subject: RE: [RC] Interesting article on Spread of Weeds by Horses I know this reply is about 2 weeks old but I have been confined to reading revenue-related emails and not RC so I am just catching up on this. Can someone remind me what grants AERC has funded to to similar studies and where? I thought the Grant Committee had approved something like this a while back and can't remember the details - it would be interesting to compare procedures and results.
Also, it seems weird to me that all the "alien invaders" they reference are from other *continents*. I would suspect that horses are not the ones bringing these weeds from abroad???
And just to throw in a ringer, I saw a feature about this issue on TV a few months ago:
Cartels Use Sequoia National Forest to Grow Pot
Wild West: Drug cartels thrive in US national parks
National Park Service?s Efforts to Combat the Growth of Illegal Drug Farms in National Parks
Granted, this is more of a cash crop than noxious weeds, but the irrigation and terracing systems they are carving into the land are very disturbing - along with the automatic weapons.
FWIW
Kristen in TX
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