Publications Categories: Land Use

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Could Cannabis Help The American West Solve Its Thorniest Environmental Issues?

Two photographs of cannabis. On the left, a densely planted field where budding live plants are covered by a green plastic mesh. On the right, an indoor storage space with bagged cannabis flower.

Smaller Cultivation & California Cannabis Policy: Recommendations for a Multi-Scale Cultivation Sector

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After legalization: Cannabis, environmental compliance, and agricultural futures

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Policy Findings & Recommendations Regarding California Cannabis: Farming, Regulation and the Environment

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Ecological Outcomes of Cannabis Legalization: A multidisciplinary study of cannabis land use change, its social drivers, and environmental outcomes

photograph of a charred cannabis farm after a wildfire

The threat of wildfire is unique to cannabis among agricultural sectors in California

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The spatial overlap of small-scale cannabis farms with aquatic and terrestrial biodiversity

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Shifting geographies of legal cannabis production in California

Photograph of police officer in front of cannabis plants in the outdoors

Buttressed and breached: The exurban fortress, cannabis activism, and the drug war’s shifting political geography

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