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bryanmckenzie
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WOW! I think I found it, David. At 300 acres, if it was a square, that's over 3,600 feet on a side! Draw a line that long in Google Earth or a square
and you could easily see it, canopy or not, from as high as 20 miles before it blends in with the surrounding terrain.
Now I don't want to share the location just yet --- I need to investigate what I think are arches, a corral and a dam.
| Quote: | Originally posted by David K
Just over the hill from Hwy. 1... If only Google Earth would take fresh photos more often...!! |
[Edited on 2011-7-15 by bryanmckenzie]
“Travel is fatal to prejudice, bigotry, and narrow-mindedness.”
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Samuel Langhorne Clemens (November 30, 1835 – April 21, 1910)
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mcfez
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Old people are like the old cars, made of some tough stuff. May show a little rust, but good as gold on the inside.
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DENNIS
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| Quote: | Originally posted by motoged
Dudes, hey....like which thread do I read....this is like kinda too much work following two threads, man |
Read one...then get a big ol' bong work-out...and channel your spirit to the other.
Jeeeezo...is this so difficult?  
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Woooosh
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| Quote: | Originally posted by David K
Yah Mike, they would have just LOVED to have you land your plane there!
(the next day: "Dude, you see where I parked my plane?") |
I was waiting for some humor to come out of this, though I was really waiting for
more coments on the neatly aligned crappers. I wonder if these are filled to the top like the wooden kind ??? |
I was actually impressed by them, like I am rail systems and ventilation in the under-border tunnels. They aren't short on cash after all.
\"The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing\"
1961- JFK to Canadian parliament (Edmund Burke)
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tripledigitken
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.......then go ride your bike
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Marc
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| Quote: | Originally posted by Bajajorge
If they burn it down all of Baja will gain weight. |
I wanna be nearby! 
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motoged
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Read one...then get a big ol' bong work-out...and channel your spirit to the other.
Jeeeezo...is this so difficult?
And then go ride your bike...
Cool, man....I've got that covered....but I can't read my I-phone too good when ripped on the bike.......aside from that, I've got it covered  
Don't believe everything you think....
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Bajahowodd
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| Quote: | Originally posted by Bajajorge
If they burn it down all of Baja will gain weight. |
Isn't it the other way around? This wasn't a meth factory. Seems to me that there will be a massive end to the munchies!
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thebajarunner
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FOX t/v/ just ran an aerial clip of the site,
no way, I mean absolutely no way, anyone could miss that big piece of business.
Very very impressive on the brief video that ran, then a few ground level shots as well,
but the over head view was pretty sensational!!
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norte
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Like most of Mexico, Baja California will let things go....unless there is something else to be gained...or there is pressure from the DEA. Hey
maybe they will stp those senseless military stops now.
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David K
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Don't you just wonder HOW they were going to transport that crop from the farm...??? I mean with the military checking every truck northbound... and
all the landing fields ditched by the military... Just how was it going to get out of Baja... out of that desert near San Agustin???
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David K
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| Quote: | Originally posted by bigzaggin
I saw this and was trying to place where it is...maybe somewhere near Mike's Sky Ranch area? Anyone? |
Wow, how did you guys miss this story already posted... ??
http://forums.bajanomad.com/viewthread.php?tid=54068
The location was given there, as Km. 141 south of El Rosario (near San Agustin)... and just over the hill from the highway.
News reports have posted the location as Ensenada (well it is in the county of Ensenada, yes)... and San Quintin, and the 'town' of El Marmol! LOL
(The El Marmol road is at Km. 148.5)
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BajaNews
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58 held in Mexico's biggest marijuana farm bust
http://www.azcentral.com/news/articles/2011/07/15/20110715me...
Jul. 15, 2011
SAN QUINTIN, Mexico - Farm workers fled the camp dinner table when Mexican soldiers on routine patrol turned up at their lush, mesh-covered oasis
stretching across the harsh Baja California desert.
Two men were caught in the camp and 56 others were rounded up in the area around what the Mexican government calls the biggest marijuana plantation
ever found in the country.
Officials on Friday showed reporters the sophisticated operation, which the army says popped up in less than four months.
Army officers said the vast farm just 1 miles (2.5 kilometers) from the main federal highway in Baja California state appeared to be the work of the
Sinaloa cartel. The same gang was tied to Mexico's largest bust of marijuana packaged for sale last fall and sophisticated underground border tunnels
discovered in November, both also in Baja California.
No one has been charged in the raid on the huge pot farm late Tuesday. The suspected workers are still being questioned.
Two of the men said they were from Sinaloa state, headquarters of the Sinaloa cartel led by Joaquin "El Chapo" Guzman, Mexico's most-wanted fugitive.
The farm was in remote territory of the Baja peninsula, 280 miles (450 kilometers) south of Tijuana, that is believed to be controlled by Guzman's
cartel.
"There are indications that these are zones of the Sinaloa cartel," said infantry Maj. Bernardo Rafael Sanchez, spokesman for the army's second
region, which covers the border states of Baja California and Sonora.
Some areas of the more than half-mile-square (kilometer-square) marijuana farm resembled a nursery, with small plants. Other parts were like mature
corn fields with neat rows of forest green plants rising more than six feet to a protective mesh shielding the expanse of plants. From the air, it
looks like a giant square of asphalt.
Authorities believe as many as 120 men worked the farm, living in four rudimentary, plywood buildings, including a large bunkhouse with long sleeping
platforms for up to 60 people, a living room and the kitchen.
Beans, cheese and salsa sat on the dinner table nearly three days after the raid, along with CDs of Norteno music. Women's lingerie and platform heels
were found in one of the smaller bedrooms. Army officials said women did not appear to have worked in the fields and may have been there for
"entertainment."
The army also found prepaid telephone cards and communications antennas.
Marijuana plantations this large and sophisticate are rare in Mexico, especially in Baja California, army Brig. Gen. Gilberto Landeros said.
Pot cultivation is much more common in the Sierra Madre mountain range in northern Sonora, Durango and Sinaloa states.
Federal authorities said the Baja pot farm was nearly double the size of an operation found in Sinaloa in 2007 and four times the size of the "Bufalo"
farm discovered in the border state of Chihuahua in 1984. Estimates of the size of the Bufalo plantation vary widely.
The army said that troops patrol this area of arid bushland and cactus every three to four months and that the plantation was not here just a few
months ago. The operators used wells for water, and tiny irrigation hoses fed every plant. There were also discarded boxes of the herbicide Gramoxone.
"At first they thought it must have been a vegetable farm," Landeros said of the soldiers who walked onto the ranch.
Army Gen. Alfonso Duarte said traffickers could have harvested about 120 tons of marijuana from the plantation, worth about 1.8 billion pesos ($160
million).
Troops have begun destroying the operation by burning the marijuana plants. Landeros said it would take a week.
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BajaNews
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Soldiers to destroy Mexico's largest pot plantation
http://tinyurl.com/6ku8pvh
TIJUANA, Mexico Mexican soldiers will begin destroying the country's largest ever marijuana plantation under the watchful eyes of state prosecutors,
officials said Friday, as hundreds of troops descended on the site.
"We estimate that it will take at least eight days" for soldiers to destroy the 120 hectare (nearly 300 acre) pot farm, said Army General Alfonso
Duarte.
From the air, the site had appeared to be nothing but an enormous black stain. But when soldiers visited the farm on the Baja California peninsula,
they discovered the massive plantation under the black tarps.
The tarps are designed to protect the plants from the blazing hot sun in the Baja desert, and a casual observer could easily believe they were
protecting tomatoes, which are widely grown in the region.
Duarte, the commander of the military region based in the far north-western border city of Tijuana, took reporters on a helicopter ride to the site,
located near the center of the peninsula.
Some 250 soldiers were meanwhile deployed to the plantation for protection and to begin the destruction.
The plantation was built around the peninsula's main north-south highway and includes a network of hoses that connect wells to a sophisticated drip
irrigation system.
Duarte said he did not know which drug cartel owned the plantation, but emphasized it was the biggest pot plantation ever found in Mexico.
The record-busting Baja plantation is much larger than the 64 hectare (160 acre) pot farm discovered in Sinaloa state in 2007, and the 84 hectare (208
acre) farm discovered in Chihuahua state in 1984.
There is also housing for some 60 workers -- when soldiers approached the site, as the employees were having a meal, they all fled. Six however were
later captured at a military checkpoint.
The crop was ready for harvest, and Duarte estimated the plantation could produce 120 tons of cannabis, which he valued at nearly $160 million.
[Edited on 7-16-2011 by BajaNews]
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805gregg
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They just busted a pot farm here in Ventura county, 63,000 plants, (worth some $230,000,000 bucks), or so they estimate.
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wessongroup
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WoW.. What a grow... and they kinda look like tomatoes .... Well, they are green
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Gypsy Jan
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For Those of You Who Are Interested in the Various Qualites of Pot
Here is an interesting report and discussion:
http://gawker.com/5821498/mexico-finds-biggest-marijuana-pla...
This makes me laugh because all the people posting comments sound exactly like a bunch of wine snobs arguing with each other.
Here is my pitch to the cable executives: "Marijuana Connoisseurs" The Next Gourmet Challenge Reality Show (On the Cooking or Food Network)
[Edited on 7-16-2011 by Gypsy Jan]
Travel is fatal to prejudice, bigotry, and narrow mindedness.
Mark Twain
\"La vida es dura, el corazon es puro, y cantamos hasta la madrugada. (Life is hard, the heart is pure and we sing until dawn.)
Kirsty MacColl, Mambo de la Luna
\"Alea iacta est.\"
Julius Caesar
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motoged
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| Quote: | Originally posted by 805gregg
They just busted a pot farm here in Ventura county, 63,000 plants, (worth some $230,000,000 bucks), or so they estimate. |
Some body is optimistic!
The average outdoor plant will usually produce between 1-8 ounces of bud (not counting leaf).
A pound of good bud might cost as much as $3000-$3500 (current BC bud price in Canada)....
So, this grow of 63,000 plants would likely produce about 31,500 pounds....@ $3000 ....that would bring in about $94,000,000....
Still not a bad return. huh?
I guess someone like Skeet would settle for the shake
at a lower price
Don't believe everything you think....
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wessongroup
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1-8 oz/plant ... that's a poor grow... think they said some of the plants were 8'.. maybe they were all males... HUH
"Skeet would settle for the shake"
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motoged
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This plant would produce less than a pound of bud:
The math is still optimistic....
[Edited on 7-17-2011 by BajaNomad]
Don't believe everything you think....
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