Author’s Afterword

The cultivation of Marijuana on public land is a major problem in California, where pot plantations have been found on state and federal property. Courtesy of Neal Benson, who is a retired forester from the California Division of Forestry, I learned of this US Forest Service video on YouTube, which shows vivid and disturbing scenes of the horrific environmental destruction caused by these farms: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IFNe_KZhPZw

These are public lands. That means they belong to all of us, and these lands are being trashed for financial gain.