While I was in Mendocino forest there are a lot illegal drugs that are being grown and one story that my professor shared with us is about Matthew Coleman, whom was murdered by individuals whom were growing marijuana. Unfortunately, Mendocino is dealing a lot with people trying to use federal protected land to grow illegal drugs in addition harming the land/native plants. Below is the link of more detail of Matts death and his work in Mendocino. I learned a lot from Rachel and I can see that her passion of being there to continue is Matt's work meant a lot to her and I'm glad that I went.
In addition, Mendocino Trust has gotten most of their lands from individuals who wants to relinquish their rights to the land and hand it over to the Trust to conserve the land. The reason they do that is because of many reasons. One common reason is that the generations of great-grandchildren are too great and to split the land up with them would cause more debate of how the land should be used--so the grandparents instead gives the land to the Mendocino Trust and draws up a plan to how to conserve the land to the legalities of the land/price etc. So, it's pretty cool that they are able to do that and continue to conserve.
Source:
1. http://kymkemp.com/2011/08/15/mendocino-land-trusts-matt-coleman-murdered/
2. http://www.pressdemocrat.com/csp/mediapool/sites/PressDemocrat/News/story.csp?cid=2477320&sid=555&fid=181
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