HUMBOLDT COUNTY, Calif. (KCBS) -- Due to budget problems in California, state parks are making due with fewer staff. Residents say pot farms are prolific in state parks, and the problem could get worse withe fewer people looking out for it.
Nadananda, the founder of Friends of the Eel River, says she has big concerns about pot farms.
"This is going on in the state and the national forests and it is a huge problem," she said.
KCBS' Margie Shafer reports
She says the Mexican cartels are involved with the pot farms and cuts in state park funding will mean fewer staff at parks, which worries her.
"We have a great deal of fear that it will actually get worse than it is now," she said.
Nadananda says she thinks the situation may get so bad that vigilante committees could form to deal with the problem.
A fire in the Los Padres National Forest in Santa Barbara County in August that burned over 75,000 acres started in an illegal marijuana growing area.
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