Research Categories: Land Use

satellite photo of grow sites and roads encroaching into forests and fragmenting the landscape

Land Use

Cannabis farms in California’s Emerald Triangle tend to cluster in ecologically sensitive areas near unpaved access roads, steep slopes, and aquatic habitat. [button link=”https://crc.berkeley.edu/publication/cannabis-cultivation-site-location-size-factors/” class=”dmach-acf-value et_pb_button”]Butsic et al. 2017[/button][button link=”https://crc.berkeley.edu/publication/cannabis-agriculture-spatial-patterns-and-the-environment/” […]