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Lt. John Nores Jr.

Lt. John Nores Jr. is a 19-year law enforcement veteran of the California Department of Fish and Game. He is a field training officer for new cadets and conducts training in firearms, defensive tactics, high risk warrant and arrest tactics as well as basic and advanced sniper training programs with fellow instructors from the Santa Clara County Sheriff’s Office. He is also a member of the local allied agency Marijuana Eradication Teams (MET) in Santa Clara and San Benito Counties. In his off-duty time he is a tri-athelete and a competitor in the annual Baja 500 off-road vehcile race. John is also a leading game warden in the new National Geographic TV series, "Wild Justice." <a href="http://www.johnnores.com/John_Nores_Jr/Home.html">http://www.johnnores.c...

War in the Woods: Combating Marijuana Cartels on Our Public Lands

Nov. 15, 2010

War in the Woods: Combating Marijuana Cartels on Our Public Lands. by Lt. John Nores Jr. and James A. Swan

An excerpt from the book War in the Woods: Combating Marijuana Cartels on Our Public Lands.

by Lt. John Nores Jr. and James A. Swan

Nationwide, there are around 7,000 game wardens, or about as many of NYPD's finest as are assigned to cover the New Year's Eve celebration in Times Square.

Nowhere are game wardens abundant, but the situation is especially bad in California, and man and nature are paying a price.

California's game wardens are responsible for protecting more than 1,000 native fish and wildlife species, more than 6,000 native plant species, and approximately 360 endangered species, as well as criminal, civil and traffic law, plus search and rescue, hunter education and assisting wildlife biologists; yet, at any given time, today there are about 240 wardens on patrol in California, and that's nearly 50 wardens more than in 2007, when I began making a documentary about California's game warden crisis..

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