Pot Farms in our mountains

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Madrox
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This was a poll. These haven't been imported. Sorry.
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That's a sad reality of the local mountain ranges. Gotta be careful. I've run across a few places with hoses and all sorts of odd trash around.
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Do you remember where they were at?
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Several canyons around R39, round my neck of the woods.
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Yeah the 39 seems to be a favorite for the "farmers" It is a huge watershed and close to L.A.
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there was a news story last year linked here that they uncovered a pot farm in Cow Canyon
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Local authorities are not much interested in busting these until there is a big haul to boast about.

Smaller grows are not of much interest to them

you gotta be careful when venturing off trail (and on) where ever there is water.

This is especially true since 100,000 acres burned in the Station Fire and some of their favorite growing areas are off limits until the brush grows back.

The whole cow canyon area and it's tributraies are crawling with these sites
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Gotta roll Strapped in some areas. Better safe than sorry..
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We ran into some remnants deep along the East Fork. If it wasn't for the boulder with "no tresspassing" and a fifty lb bag of fertilizer, I wouldn't have thought anything of it. These scumbags like to trash the place as well... like someone else said, you just have to roll strapped sometimes.
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I would think your chances of finding a pot farm depend on how much cross-country travel you do. Nobody will pick Icehouse Canyon as a grow site.
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I was up at the end of Haven Ave today checking out a waterfall in Bull Canyon.
Almost made it to the falls when we saw brand new black pipes put in with freshly stamped grass trails.
Right when we saw that we turned tail out of there.
I guess I will wait till winter to explore some canyons now :evil:
I will notify San Bernardino Sheriff tomorrow.

Further up from Bull Canyon in Deer Canyon we also heard a Black Bear warning us to his presence too. I never heard that sound before... spooky when it is foggy out....lol
It sounded like someone blowing air through a tube then some loud clicking.
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Post by rios »

This is a thread I found on a firearms forum I frequent related to this topic.

http://www.calguns.net/calgunforum/show ... p?t=365160

^This is a LONG pot farm story with lots of pictures.^

There is also a book written by a Game Warden on the topic (War in the Woods).
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NICE!
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