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November 27, 2005
Southern Colombia and Northern California
Steve Dudley has a decent piece in today's Miami Herald discussing the ongoing debate in Colombia about whether to expand the aerial fumigation program in the country's national park system. (In another post, this blog argued that spraying in Colombia's parks is a bad idea - not because of the potential harm that glyphosate might do, but because fumigation does not discourage coca growers: it has led them to cut down even more forest and attempt to plant even more coca.)
Juxtapose the Herald article with a short piece in today's Washington Post, which notes that the United States has the same problem:
California's national parks and forests have long been known as havens of wildlife and natural beauty. They are also, increasingly, the refuge of gun-toting drug cartels growing large tracts of marijuana. Authorities seized 1.1 million marijuana plants during this year's fall harvest, nearly twice as many as last year, itself a record. Almost three-quarters of the marijuana seized was grown on public land.
We can't help but note, however, that nobody is proposing to fumigate Sequoia National Park.
Posted by isacson at November 27, 2005 11:21 PM
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