More than 100 dope plants found in national park

[SHEEPinWOLFskin]

MORE than 100 cannabis plants worth about $225,000 have been discovered in a national park in northern New South Wales.

 

Detectives seized 112 mature cannabis plants up to two metres in height within Kwiambal National Park near Ashford today, police said.

 

No one has been arrested over the haul.

 

 

http://www.news.com.au/breaking-news/more-...0-1225855573281

 

 

[Crunchy]

damn... the day b4 420 as well, shame

[Budman2012]

Heheh , Only 100? ... 1 national park?

I reckon it would boggle the mind to think of how many plants would be planted in our many vast vast national parks each year , wouldn't suprise me if it were in the millions

Someone is going to be slightly dissapointed and I do feel sorry for them a bit ... but at least they weren't caught in the act , hopefully they've seen the news and just tick this one up as a loss

 

Seems their price guestimations are getting a little more moderate these days too aye ... a healthy 1-2 metre average Cannabis plant is going to yield 1/2 a pound easy , $2000 bux a plant? ... sounds fair (from an economical point of view at least).

Anyhoo , cheerz for the story

 

Budman

[OrbitTime]

I may not be popular on these boards for frowning on the use of National Parks as a place to grow Cannabis. The reason why they're National Parks is due to conserving important and threatened biodiversity - the natural treasure our unique continent still has if we retain it. If the idea of not thinking it irresponsible for the potential extinction of a vulnerable frog due to eutrophication by a Cannabis crop doesn't bother you, then shame on you. I think there should be a separate charge for willful destruction to National Parks for people caught cropping in them. The damage by excessive nutrients, altering soil profiles, interfering with recruitment by clearance, modifying hydrology and other ill effects should be prosecuted by law. Edited April 24, 2010 by OrbitTime

[torana2000]

I may not be popular on these boards for frowning on the use of National Parks as a place to grow Cannabis. The reason why they're National Parks is due to conserving important and threatened biodiversity - the natural treasure our unique continent still has if we retain it. If the idea of not thinking it irresponsible for the potential extinction of a vulnerable frog due to eutrophication by a Cannabis crop doesn't bother you, then shame on you. I think there should be a separate charge for willful destruction to National Parks for people caught cropping in them. The damage by excessive nutrients, altering soil profiles, interfering with recruitment by clearance, modifying hydrology and other ill effects should be prosecuted by law.

 

oh boohoo cry me a river!!!!!

[OrbitTime]

oh boohoo cry me a river!!!!!

 

So you don't give a toss about preservation of threatened biodiversity? If it's Cannabis being grown than that's acceptable, eh? I repeat, the reason why we have National Parks gazetted is because they contain features, be it geological or biological or even cultural (i.e., Aboriginal artifacts) which require protection/preservation from disturbance. If you want to crop go and fucking do it on your own land or under your own fucking lamps. Don't go fucking up natural habitat.

[DarkSpark]

I may not be popular on these boards for frowning on the use of National Parks as a place to grow Cannabis. The reason why they're National Parks is due to conserving important and threatened biodiversity - the natural treasure our unique continent still has if we retain it. If the idea of not thinking it irresponsible for the potential extinction of a vulnerable frog due to eutrophication by a Cannabis crop doesn't bother you, then shame on you. I think there should be a separate charge for willful destruction to National Parks for people caught cropping in them. The damage by excessive nutrients, altering soil profiles, interfering with recruitment by clearance, modifying hydrology and other ill effects should be prosecuted by law.

Orbit time, i hear where you are coming from loud and clear. However i feel a distinction should be made between a CROP of 100 plants and a few plants here and there left to grow from seedling as my outdoor girls do. Not that i have the ability to get to any national parks anyways >.<

 

I do feel that filling a single area with plants is both foolish and could be considered a mild form of enviro-vandalism. For the reasons stated by Orbit. Especially if you are clearing and digging up the soil etc.

 

Second good point, land isn't THAT pricey... 30acres for 50grand i have seen in the paper. bushland zoned for development.

[wilderbud]

So we all agree that Cannabis should be legalized to save trees right?

[torana2000]

So you don't give a toss about preservation of threatened biodiversity? If it's Cannabis being grown than that's acceptable, eh? I repeat, the reason why we have National Parks gazetted is because they contain features, be it geological or biological or even cultural (i.e., Aboriginal artifacts) which require protection/preservation from disturbance. If you want to crop go and fucking do it on your own land or under your own fucking lamps. Don't go fucking up natural habitat.

gee a bit tooo passinate about this arnt you...most national parks are declared to satisfie political agenda to keep in goverment and passifi the minority greens if you are blind to that well you do live in a fairyland dont you..

[OrbitTime]

gee a bit tooo passinate about this arnt you...most national parks are declared to satisfie political agenda to keep in goverment and passifi the minority greens if you are blind to that well you do live in a fairyland dont you..

 

Care to substantiate that hyperbole scientifically?

 

I can cite science papers with specific studies on threatened species (as per the IUCN/EPBC) and which were instrumental in establishing National Parks. Without and we would lose, as we have historically lost, vast and integrated ecosystems in this country. Australia already has a shameful record of extinction of marsupial species in the small to intermediate size (35 g to 5500 g), not to mention a scandalous record of land clearance and disturbance i.e, 70% of forests cleared, including almost all the Mallee gone, and the massive loss of native grasslands too. If you've traveled across the country, as I have, you would see the impact and how it has left extensive tracts of the country in a pauperate condition which has enabled noxious and feral species invasion. National Parks are on the front line to preserving out nation’s biodiversity.

 

Growing Cannabis in sensitive ecosystems, as found in National Parks, can cause serious impact. Almost all Australian natives are phosphorus (P) sensitive, as they employ symbiotic mycorrhizal relationships to survive in typically P deficient Australian soils. Yet to beef up bud’age the use of P will be hundreds of times what the natural levels are resulting in the death of native flora. That’s just one impact. If the P leaches to a creek it will lead to algal outbreaks depriving all aquatic biota of oxygen, which can result in localised extinctions. If there are enough localised extinctions you lose a species if they fall below a recruitment threshold. Mull growers have been known to divert water, clear scrub, excavate soils and in import soils or additives which can inadvertently carry pathogens and weed seeds to an environment that hasn’t the means to protect itself from such invaders. Some may argue a significant number of Cannabis plantings are small scale and scattered; yet it’s the sum of the impacts that are of issue and not the individual impacts. This is not ‘fairyland’, this is science.