so two teams coming off separate points
on the ridge press out with it okay
right where we’re at right now is what
would be considered the lion’s den of
marijuana cultivation in California or
North America this is also a prime area
for a lot of threatened endangered
species there’s a marijuana garden about
a half mile away and hopefully we can
apprehend them that risk of coming into
a grow that has people that are
defending their crop to the end with
guns there’s always a risk there go
ahead and get your team ready to make
my name is dr. Murad Gabriel I’m the
co-director of a nonprofit organization
called integral ecology Research Center
our specific mission is to generate and
disseminate scientific information for
wildlife managers politicians and other
individuals involved in the conservation
realm we’ve been in this work since
about 2013 looking at Fisher ecology
Fisher is a mid-sized carnivore that
relies on mature forests they’re kind of
the honey badger of North America
you’re pretty ferocious little guys we
started finding out the Pacific fishers
were dying from rodenticide toxicosis so
rodenticides this type of pesticide and
so what was causing this only thing that
was coming up was there was something
around these forests that was placing
these rodenticide out there and it
wasn’t until a for service special agent
stated that your answer is marijuana
cultivation on their public lands
Emerald triangle has been coined by
marijuana cultivators as the central hub
of where domestic marijuana cultivation
kind of sprouted and so that would be
humbled Mendocino in Trinity County if
you get rid of wildlife you have no
conflict with it it doesn’t destroy your
plants it doesn’t eat your food that’s
what these suspects constantly reiterate
I get rid of wildlife by poisoning them
multi-year contamination of soil
poisoning terrestrial wildlife poisoning
avian wildlife I would ask any
conservationist if that was occurring in
an impacting threatened endangered or
sensitive species is that a significant
conservation threat I would bet you 10
out of 10 conservation should be like
so from the time that we detect the site
what we’ll do at that point is we’ll
begin investigating and starting to try
identifying who’s doing it through
surveillance get as much Intel as we can
on them before we actually come in and
do the raid yeah they’re turning left
here and then the drop points right
underneath the powerlines yeah those
reference in these cases these really
large growths are probably being run by
a drug trafficking organization and so
they’ll get whatever pesticides or
fertilizers they need brought to them
they’re gonna go down raw so extremely
waiting for the suspects to show up in
the vehicle once they show up hopefully
we can apprehend them sounds like we’re
gonna go in and get him the camp coming
stop it
I can explain what happened real quick
oh they were waiting they saw the guys
who are attending the plants and then
when the suspects were apprehended by
canine unit with this officer and
another suspect evaded horseman until
they can actually catch up to him can’t
you chain them loose uh-oh throws people
stay in sick to see those malathion
Mercado nada nada no guy says he doesn’t
use insecticides pretty surprised to
find out all right
he said no car for urine but what we’re
finding is a spray bottle up there it’s
got paint on the inside of the spray
there’s no insecticides or pesticides
that we know of that are pink other than
the car bro fear this is highly
plausible that these are meth amid
Depot’s or cover fearing that is it
probably dying that house carbo Furion
it takes literally a quarter of a
teaspoon to kill a male African lion a
600 pound male African lion quarter
teaspoon so you know don’t offend us on
that Iran yes uh don’t it’s very
important to be there on that day if
that raid happened and I was not there
and then I come out a week later
Bears have destroyed the whole area I’m
gonna lose local growers are actually
doing so you know nothing than that data
how does the site compared to other ones
you’ve seen before this cookie cutter
ran poison kill plant poison kill plant
repeat I mean it’s I mean hate to be so
blunt and simplistic about it but that’s
they were talking about bringing some a
Murad’s group in from ier C to help
document the site process you know some
samples but because it’s getting late in
the evening we’ll we’ll do that
environmental survey stuff more tomorrow
the raid happens we go out there
document it and then we go in there and
clean it up I’m gonna go ahead and start
marking this guys so if you guys want to
follow me okay whoa what is this I don’t
like that you can see that it almost
looks like calamine lotion that’s been
diluted that is a big big big red flag
for us I am going to take samples
Murad’s group helped us so much as far
as assessing the sites they analyzed the
soil they analyzed the plants they help
us identify how much damage there is to
the resource into the National Forest I
see there’s a bear puncture in this I
mean that is a bear getting you know
several ounces in its mouth if it’s
Karbo fear and that bear is done it has
federally been designated as critical
habitat and now we have what I call a
death ring a death pit if that bears
raising young now you didn’t kill that
cell you killed her and maybe her two or
three cubs that she’s raising that’s the
so how do you see the way forward after
this you think the pesticides are just
gonna continue to be this bad well you
guys try to make a dent in it oh we’re
making a dent in it our organization is
completely optimistic there’s no way
we’re quitting on this so another twenty
four fourteen fourteen fifty pounds you
got to be relentless and show know
pretty much what I say no reclamation
mercy you clean it all up you don’t give
them this quarter where they can come up
and set up shop any time and we
contaminate the environment to go in
investigate see the chemicals that are
there see how much trash is there and to
finally see it come out of that site I’m
sort of reversing the damage is a really
really great feeling what we do is
document environmental degradation
because what we’re doing is gathering
data in order to demonstrate that
contamination is occurring I care about
conservation rectifying something that
us as humans are contributing towards in
creating the scientific evidence so that
policymakers and agency folks can make
the best sound decisions that’s my main
mission it doesn’t matter what species
it is it doesn’t matter the topic it’s
conservation I do this work because it’s a conservation issue that’s my mission
on the ridge press out with it okay
right where we’re at right now is what
would be considered the lion’s den of
marijuana cultivation in California or
North America this is also a prime area
for a lot of threatened endangered
species there’s a marijuana garden about
a half mile away and hopefully we can
apprehend them that risk of coming into
a grow that has people that are
defending their crop to the end with
guns there’s always a risk there go
ahead and get your team ready to make
my name is dr. Murad Gabriel I’m the
co-director of a nonprofit organization
called integral ecology Research Center
our specific mission is to generate and
disseminate scientific information for
wildlife managers politicians and other
individuals involved in the conservation
realm we’ve been in this work since
about 2013 looking at Fisher ecology
Fisher is a mid-sized carnivore that
relies on mature forests they’re kind of
the honey badger of North America
you’re pretty ferocious little guys we
started finding out the Pacific fishers
were dying from rodenticide toxicosis so
rodenticides this type of pesticide and
so what was causing this only thing that
was coming up was there was something
around these forests that was placing
these rodenticide out there and it
wasn’t until a for service special agent
stated that your answer is marijuana
cultivation on their public lands
Emerald triangle has been coined by
marijuana cultivators as the central hub
of where domestic marijuana cultivation
kind of sprouted and so that would be
humbled Mendocino in Trinity County if
you get rid of wildlife you have no
conflict with it it doesn’t destroy your
plants it doesn’t eat your food that’s
what these suspects constantly reiterate
I get rid of wildlife by poisoning them
multi-year contamination of soil
poisoning terrestrial wildlife poisoning
avian wildlife I would ask any
conservationist if that was occurring in
an impacting threatened endangered or
sensitive species is that a significant
conservation threat I would bet you 10
out of 10 conservation should be like
so from the time that we detect the site
what we’ll do at that point is we’ll
begin investigating and starting to try
identifying who’s doing it through
surveillance get as much Intel as we can
on them before we actually come in and
do the raid yeah they’re turning left
here and then the drop points right
underneath the powerlines yeah those
reference in these cases these really
large growths are probably being run by
a drug trafficking organization and so
they’ll get whatever pesticides or
fertilizers they need brought to them
they’re gonna go down raw so extremely
waiting for the suspects to show up in
the vehicle once they show up hopefully
we can apprehend them sounds like we’re
gonna go in and get him the camp coming
stop it
I can explain what happened real quick
oh they were waiting they saw the guys
who are attending the plants and then
when the suspects were apprehended by
canine unit with this officer and
another suspect evaded horseman until
they can actually catch up to him can’t
you chain them loose uh-oh throws people
stay in sick to see those malathion
Mercado nada nada no guy says he doesn’t
use insecticides pretty surprised to
find out all right
he said no car for urine but what we’re
finding is a spray bottle up there it’s
got paint on the inside of the spray
there’s no insecticides or pesticides
that we know of that are pink other than
the car bro fear this is highly
plausible that these are meth amid
Depot’s or cover fearing that is it
probably dying that house carbo Furion
it takes literally a quarter of a
teaspoon to kill a male African lion a
600 pound male African lion quarter
teaspoon so you know don’t offend us on
that Iran yes uh don’t it’s very
important to be there on that day if
that raid happened and I was not there
and then I come out a week later
Bears have destroyed the whole area I’m
gonna lose local growers are actually
doing so you know nothing than that data
how does the site compared to other ones
you’ve seen before this cookie cutter
ran poison kill plant poison kill plant
repeat I mean it’s I mean hate to be so
blunt and simplistic about it but that’s
they were talking about bringing some a
Murad’s group in from ier C to help
document the site process you know some
samples but because it’s getting late in
the evening we’ll we’ll do that
environmental survey stuff more tomorrow
the raid happens we go out there
document it and then we go in there and
clean it up I’m gonna go ahead and start
marking this guys so if you guys want to
follow me okay whoa what is this I don’t
like that you can see that it almost
looks like calamine lotion that’s been
diluted that is a big big big red flag
for us I am going to take samples
Murad’s group helped us so much as far
as assessing the sites they analyzed the
soil they analyzed the plants they help
us identify how much damage there is to
the resource into the National Forest I
see there’s a bear puncture in this I
mean that is a bear getting you know
several ounces in its mouth if it’s
Karbo fear and that bear is done it has
federally been designated as critical
habitat and now we have what I call a
death ring a death pit if that bears
raising young now you didn’t kill that
cell you killed her and maybe her two or
three cubs that she’s raising that’s the
so how do you see the way forward after
this you think the pesticides are just
gonna continue to be this bad well you
guys try to make a dent in it oh we’re
making a dent in it our organization is
completely optimistic there’s no way
we’re quitting on this so another twenty
four fourteen fourteen fifty pounds you
got to be relentless and show know
pretty much what I say no reclamation
mercy you clean it all up you don’t give
them this quarter where they can come up
and set up shop any time and we
contaminate the environment to go in
investigate see the chemicals that are
there see how much trash is there and to
finally see it come out of that site I’m
sort of reversing the damage is a really
really great feeling what we do is
document environmental degradation
because what we’re doing is gathering
data in order to demonstrate that
contamination is occurring I care about
conservation rectifying something that
us as humans are contributing towards in
creating the scientific evidence so that
policymakers and agency folks can make
the best sound decisions that’s my main
mission it doesn’t matter what species
it is it doesn’t matter the topic it’s
conservation I do this work because it’s a conservation issue that’s my mission
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