Publications Categories: Environment

Example night-time photograph from a motion detection camera in study of wildlife interaction with cannabis cultivation region in southern Oregon.

Coexisting with cannabis: Wildlife response to marijuana cultivation in the Klamath-Siskiyou Ecoregion

cannabis farm

Cannabis farmers or criminals? Enforcement-first approaches fuel disparity and hinder regulation

Macro-scale photograph of cannabis plant with webs of spider mites, a common pest.

First known survey of cannabis production practices

Photograph of a hillside cannabis grow site. The remains felled conifer trees lie on the right and the cleared grow site is steep. Two plastic water storage tanks sit on leveled ground.

Watering the Emerald Triangle: Irrigation sources used by cannabis cultivators in Northern California

Photograph of a worker hauling long, coiled lines of plastic irrigation pipe and bags of waste out of a partially cleared conifer forest.

Cannabis, an emerging agricultural crop, leads to deforestation and fragmentation

Photograph of cannabis farm with tightly aligned, green crop rows in the foreground and forested hills in the background as the sun rises or sets with yellow streaming rays over the scene.

Prohibition and Planning: Marijuana, Development and the Upheaval of Governance in Rural California

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

Cannabis agriculture and the environment: a systematic, spatially-explicit survey and potential impacts

photograph of a circular lined pond, full of water, on a forested slope

High Time for Conservation: adding the environment to the debate on marijuana liberalization