High there?
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High there?
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Siskiyou County Government urges you to read this before you buy land or move
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High There? Every year it seems someone visits the subdivision, looks around at the sparsely populated area and decides that this would be a great place to start a marijuana farm or perhaps to take up illegal residence on one of the hundreds of vacant parcels. The space between our homes seems to suggest to outsiders that we do not communicate with one another. Ah, if only they knew! Our community, like small communities everywhere, has its share of gossips. In fact, it seems that the smaller the community the faster news travels on the grapevine. Marijuana farmers are particularly creative, and deluded. We have had pot farms hidden by plywood fences, under the canopies of trees, even in caves. Contrary to what the outsiders assume, there is very little that goes unnoticed up here. If someone puts up a tall solid fence, or suddenly starts driving around with a water tank on the back of their truck people will notice, and the phone lines and emails will be buzzing. Some people, myself included, don't really care what people do on their own properties here, as long as you leave us alone and do not create a community-wide hazard, such as unsafe fires. But people will notice. Some will just call or email via the "Shasta Vista Gossip Hotline", some will call the sheriff's department and some will steal your plants. And if that weren't deterrent enough, the local multi-departmental law enforcement team flies over in airplanes and helicopters every year at harvest time...they think it is odd for bright light to be coming from a cave...or water hoses to be strung all over the place. Squatters can be equally deluded. A few years ago we had a little group of people who set up camp on someone else's property. People grew suspicious, located the property owner to verify they were not the campers and had not given anyone permission to camp on their property, and called the sheriff's office. Deputies came out and uprooted the squatters, who moved to another parcel in another section of the subdivision. Within hours (minutes?) the grapevine was buzzing again about their new location. Deputies called in, squatters moved yet again...deputies called again. I think they occupied four parcels before figuring out that plan was not working here and finally went away, leaving piles of trash in their wake.
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