Wilderness Warfare: Militarized Cartels Hiding In America's Woods (with John Nores) I IRONCLAD 

The betrayal of the American people by the federal and state governments is absolutely disgusting!

I wonder how many people that go missing in our parks are really dead and buried by these type of criminals?

Cartels should be treated as terrorists organizations.

In Mississippi, it's the cartel growers that come up missing.

The fact that the cartels are here, makes me feel like we need to bring back deputized posses and militias.

We have HUNDREDS of vets who were impeccably trained for this sort of thing

They are 100% letting this happen on purpose. If they were concerned about it as much is Israel and Ukraine, Special Forces could have this handled in a week.

the reports of hikers disappearing maybe connected too.

Went huckleberry picking on Mt Rainier a few years ago and I was shocked at how many Chinese people were basically living in the mountains picking huckleberries. They had refer trucks and impromptu shelters set up. Talked to one forest ranger and they would roust them every 2 weeks because there's a time limit on how long you can stay in the same place in the national forests. There looked to be almost 100 people in the one group.

I have a hard time not thinking that local Politicians are in on it and getting a cut.

Whats bizarre is what should be a war is treated like social/LE issue. They play for keeps and we can't win until we do too.

Sinalo makes 500 billion a year, do you think our government wants to loose that?

I had the same problem in Los Angeles High Desert. 640 acres, 2010. I did a 2am Falluja RAIN of 308 M62 TRACERS from 600 yards away. 100 rounds of TRACER into the tents and GREEN houses...(2drums from my PTR91) they left and abandoned their tents and green houses..... Lake City NATO 308 M62 Tracers bouncing around at night will scare most people away....

I like how the interviewer lets the man talk, you don’t see very often nowadays

Another question is how many politicians and others are in the cartels back pocket?

We need to go hands on with the cartels immediately

The worst part of this story is we could STOP THIS if we wanted to tomorrow 😢

And the Chinese send the proceeds back to their homeland

I actually respect cartels LESS because they are so clever and hard working. That means they could easily live good, productive lives. Instead, they actively choose to destroy the lives of people around them.

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This could account for the missing hikers who may have stumbled upon them.

This has been going on for a long time. I went into the Marine Corps in 1992. In 1994 I was stationed at Camp Pendleton in a scout sniper platoon and the federal government was considering using us for reconnaissance in national parks to locate growers and grow fields. It never happened.

My dads family grew up all over California and my grandpa always told my dad and his siblings be extremely careful in the cali woods not just for the wild animals but the cartels and growers were killing lots of people stumbling upon there operations and that was back in the 70s and 80s

Wow, I am a Vet. from the 80's and 90's . You all are the front line in our backyard! Go get them.

The guy who runs Missing 411 about all the disappearances in forests never mentions this as a possibility and won't respond to questions about it. Makes it all seem like woo incidents. Strange.

Mid '80's, Southern Oregon, I was part of a "Student panel" that talked about this !! Thru' the decades hunters have had "issues" in our hunting spots..."State of Jefferson" area.

I have listened to a pod cast on Narcofornia. That was the first time I had heard this. I travel alone a lot up and down interstate 5 and Hwy 97 into Oregon. I started really looking hard at who I see at rest stops and small towns like Doris California. What I see scares the crap out of me. The Trinity national forest in Trinity County has like 5 deputies and is massive. These guys are even stealing water from farmers and ranchers. I dont go out in the hay ranch that we own that I am not armed. Who knew I would have to have my head on a swivel and a firearm within reach out there. I moved up there from the gang infested east San Fernando valley. This is wild land and it needs protected.

This type of activity has been active in the bay area mountains for decades. If you move north toward Healdsburg, Eureka, its even worse.

In 1992 I was working in the logging industry between college and we ran into multiple grows out by Feather Falls in California. They’ve been doing this for decades. I was fortunate to be able to map it out for the authorities and fly in and destroy the grows. Great experience

Glad someone is taking about this. Spent years in the northwest forests. There's a war going on out there

My sister worked marijuana reconnaissance in the national Forest in ca. She tell me about hikers coming up on booby traps where they get fish hooks in their face and how the land was destroyed. People from South America would be dropped off to take care of these grow farms and they'd have some flour tortillas and this and that but not enough food so they were poaching endangered species to live down there cuz they were just dropped off in the forest. Joy was telling me this back in 2000, so I've known about it. Definitely a public safety and an environmental issue.

Go to Costco or Sam's club and you'll see these Cartel members and the Chinese mafia members filling up hand carts with enough supplies for a 5-10 man grow crews for however long. They'll buy 30-40 dozen eggs, 20 or more cases of top ramen, a few dozen cases of sports drink mix or Gatorade, TP, tooth brushes, tooth paste,... They always stick to those easy basic items. The reason I know this is through personal observation and people I know who work at these big box stores. If you want to find these crews, go where they buy their basic needs supplies...

The last time war was brought to our backyard 1775, we cleaned the yard by having interested, intelligent, wise, willing, passionate, tactical and technically competent leadership.

This caught my attention immediately. I live in a small, extremely wooded mountain area in the middle of nowhere Alabama. I've recently started hearing loads, and loads of gunfire, loud hard felt explosions possibly dynamite, or grenades. It also happens late at night, which is definitely against the naturel order of things here. We locals are extremely careful, and respect the peace of our neighbors. There is no noise ordinance here, but we stop shooting before dark. I'll checkmark this, and check in down the road...

I scrutinize many top leaders right now. Texas Game Wardens have one of the most dangerous jobs. Think about it you can assume every call you go on firearms and alcohol is involved…. And your alone in the country

If citizens were not held down on so many laws I bet they would not be out there in the woods now.

Our government needs an overhaul and they need to deputize minutemen across our nation to weed out this curruption and invasion

Ive been in recovery for 14 years and have been a drug counselor as well. I have lost 90% of the people i councild and ran with or went to school with. This fight is definitely personal to me. I would give my life to change it!

I pray for your safety. ALL OF YOU! ❤

Prior Horse Patrol Instructor USBP agent from Ajo Station. Im glad I found this channel and video. Glad to see this stuff finally getting out there.

Thank you both for all you do! May the Lord watch over you and protect you. Keep @ it brothers!

2004?!?!? First of all, I’ve been a backpacker, hunter, fisherman, survivalist, etc most of my life. I’m no operator, but I can handle myself well. My bushcraft/survival skills are above average. I’m an excellent tracker (not trying to bump myself up, I’ve been told that by the two Sheriffs Deputies, one ex-Ranger and an ex-Marine with SERE training, who tried to evade me during a tracking training )No “formal training” until I got into SAR in 2009, and when I got into that I started to train them in some tracking survival skills, as well as austere field medicine/first aid. I hunt a zone in the Central Valley sierras. It’s 1994. At this point I’ve fished, hiked and backpacked this area since a was kid. Like a little kid. I’m 24 at the time. Ok…we’re truck scouting an area off the western ridge of this canyon, and I see a small rock formation on the side of this road. So I pull off and check it. It’s a small trail that leads down to upper fork of the Kings that feeds the much larger middle fork. It is a primarily south/east facing face. I told my buddy I was gonna walk it. He was gonna finish his “breakfast “ and meet me at the bottom. Now I knew, and had heard stories about grows in the National Parks that border this zone, heard stories of these guys stopping fishermen or hunters and taking their licenses and telling them ‘now we know where you live’ kinda shit, and although it’s in the back of my head, it’s not the first thing on my mind. I’m walking down, rifle in hand (always had a handgun on me), and I’m noticing new boot prints. I come around a small bend and there’s a little Laotian/Hmong guy sitting on a fallen tree with a sawed off 12g shotgun. I surprised him as much as he surprised me. I saw his grip tighten on the gun stock, I started to point mine more towards him, and from behind I hear a snap, then a “what the f$@k?” and my buddy came up from behind with his 30/30 coming up. It was really weird. Scary. A rush, and not really in a good way. We all kinda looked at each other. I kinda waved my hand low and we just left. I figured he was waiting for a drop (rock formation as a marker) and we were not who he expected. Let the local game warden know. A year later…HUGE grow was found in that exact spot. Fast forward 5 yrs later, on another ridge, this one skirting the north side of the Middle Fork of the Kings, south facing. I had started down this trail. I’m always checking for prints, wires, etc. And after the last go round I’m pretty much always in a heightened state when I’m up there…and honestly, it pisses me off these a$$holes are f$@king up MY sierras. As I’m going I look up just in time to miss a fish hook at my eye level. This is NOT uncommon. Especially in the less traveled areas, which I prefer to hunt. Even though I’ve seen this first hand, it still took me off a bit when we went through specialized training on this stuff in SAR. I generally hunt alone. After the couple of incidents, and these were just two, I keep a bag back in my truck with an extensive first aid kit, spare mags for the pistol I carry, as well as a spare pistol with high capacity mags, 3 military grade smoke grenades, and an AR500 plate carrier (able to stop a rifle round up to .308), with the extra coating. I’m not giving up MY sierras. I’m not giving up MY right to be in MY woods. And I’ll be god dammed if they’re going to intimidate me out of my life.

We the people of America need to stop playing the nice guy and start protecting our country from these vermin

I am a member of the Eastern Shawnee Tribe of Oklahoma, have buddies up on the Crow, Rocky Boy, Blackfeet and Flathead reservations, and know about these problems, and know about the trafficking issues, why are the Reservations shutting down and blocking folks from entering to handling the situation. Are they paying off the elders and tribal police. It is sad they are letting these things take hold

Come check out the desert in Northern Arizona. The sheriffs know & participate while homeowners are kicked off their own land. Its still the Wild West out here

We ALWAYS had a Domestic Enemy problem which works or allows these foreign groups

Sorry but our government is well aware of what’s going on and I’d be very surprised if they’re not a part of that business

We need more than a new dam, we need to allow private citizen's to stand their ground without fear of prosecution by their own government who claims to be against all this shit. As someone who spent 25 year's in the cannabis industry of Humboldt County I will say that many consider law enforcement to be working against locals in favor of the cartels who compared to locals seem to very rarely be raided or pursued. If anything, the cartels almost seem to be protected and operate with damn near impunity. Their operations are massive in comparison to what locals do, they can be clearly seen on Google Maps, yet they are almost never busted. 🤷🏻‍♂️

Listening to this makes me think of a line from Sicario - Day of the Soldado: an agent says to his superior, "This is why nothing ever changes here!" She replies, "You really think CHANGE is the object here?" Or something close to that. Someone is profiting from all this so they're actually protecting it with a SHOW of force occasionally to look like they're "doing something about it". And it seems thst NO ONE is willing to take the necessary action in the necessary strength to de- incentivize the activity. SMH

This is crazy. I've hiked Henry Coe for years. Up and down Carmel Valley, Kings Canyon and went to school in Los Gatos Hills. There are growers in the back side of Watsonville/Mt Madonna area. People are clueless. Lots of buddies with the SCSO as well. I'm telling you, you gotta keep your head on a swivel. 👊🏽

Great job on the interview Rocco. John is one of the best interviews I’ve listened to.

I've had to clean up cartel grows so the domestic land owner would not get hit with double the fines for the cartel trespass growing on his property. I'm a grower myself, I don't need to use the mentioned chemicals and can instead run my whole crop with organic amendments and pest management routines. I wish I had more protections from law enforcement as a domestic USA born grower using these much more sustainable practices.

Yet the wonderful American politicians let this happen. Been going on for 30 years plus already

Cartels join our military to be paid for the education. When they do their 4 years they go back to serve there cartels. Happens all the time

Great Great interview. Thank you both.

This was an amazing listen!! Fantastic job!

Thank y'all for your service.Pray God be with y'all .

I don't know how I came across this channel, but I'm glad I did. I had no idea this was going on. Great video, thank you.

Excellent and thanks for sharing this vital information

I think I found my new favorite channel. Great work.

California, Montana, West Virginia, Pennsylvania, Wisconsin, etc .. they Cartels are everywhere.

And we went over a lot of this in our SAR training. We were told and shown slides of HUGE busts. I asked what it took, to clean all that up. The answer was that 99.9 of these aren’t. Period. These guys will move from bust site to bust site, in a lot of cases, just resetting up what was taken down. And they’re able to grow this stuff above tree line now. So you’re talking 10,000’ +. There had been a meth lab somewhere on the Merced, east of Yosemite. They had used an old cabin site off a one, bust after bust for years. Someone went in and broke down the old wood stove, they came back. Then a fire finally took the old cabin out and that stopped it. Can you even begin to imagine what was flowing through Yosemite?!? The only real clean up is with private groups, I know our SAR group had hiked out a bunch of stuff and flew some out on netting when we had a guy who’d volunteer his little bird for searches and whatnot. They just will not give them the money or resources to clean these up, and a lot of these are in SNP and KNP. They’re really killing our mountains.

Eye opening and a different side that has never been exposed… you guys are on to something big that will change lives.

California….. enough said. This is nothing new. This was happening 40 years ago……..

Closing the boarder would stop all of it along with mass deportation

Thank you fo rthis video. Important information, excellent presentation! Subscribed.

Twilight in America by Martin Mawyer 2012, this book talks about the camps and how they are funded. Its been going on for a long time.

Thanks for the frequent 🔥 content!

Stumpf interviewed this guy few yrs ago. Great story for ppl to review every year!!! Good stuff Rocco

I'm liking this channel, quality content guys

Chinese,and oriental origin folks are all over in the woods here in southern Oregon! They grow weed, they take all our mushrooms….. ridiculous!!!!!

My taxes double every fucking year

See updates on Montana cartels from Staci Zinn - recently retired head of DEA in Montana!

Outstanding!

In Maine it's the Chinese Triads who are operating the illegal grows. It's common knowledge and the govt. has been talking tuff but in reality there isn't much being done about it. Highest bail I've seen was $1500... Proceeds estimated at 4 billion per anum.

As a person getting out of active duty army, where can I join these organizations to help out? This probem needs more help than we thought

You know, I've been hearing stories for 30 years about transient marijuana growers using our forests. I now wonder how many of the 411 missing are their victims?

How does it come to be that this scenario of foreign or criminal groups who may or may not be citizens are actually living in national parks? That is insane to me despite however large the parks are. Billions go into defense, homeland defense spending how does this happen?

This is some scary stuff, great interview, but very scary!😣

I feel like this kind of stuff needs to be put out to the American people. I would say barely 1% of Americans know this information and it needs to be the center of attention because this is becoming a national security threat letting all these criminals in and operating on US soil.

I wish them good luck, especially in a place like the Missouri Ozarks, them woods don't do outsiders

Great video! Extremely informative!

You got rid of the ranchers and loggers and got the Cartels who are in league with our Government. Possession is 9/10ths of the law, never forget it. The environment was just an excuse, things were way better before...sad to say.

We've seen cartel grows throughout NorCal for decades when out deer hunting it's nothing new. 😢

Spent three years in LA in the early 90s and word even back then was stay out of the backwoods wilderness areas. I was on a picnic with my family around lake Isabella and spoke briefly with a deputy there. He was insistent that i keep my family out of the backwoods areas.

Hate that this is going on in our country ruining these beautiful areas.

911 insides job!? Cartels inside job!? Infiltration inside job!?

This stuff goes on even in Kansas. When you find an abandoned grow site it becomes apparent from the trash they leave they weren’t American.

If your a hunter in the woods ...and you come across an encampment and the local authorities do nothing ....are you not within your rights to protect your community against a hostile potentially deadly threat ? Hunt in large groups ...it may just be up to the public when the authorities are outnumbered and out gunned !!!! I'm sure there's lots of retired and ex military that would be able to help... even if its on a mercenary type situation !

Thanks Joe! With your admin it just gets better and better!!

What a storyteller!! Had me on the edge of my seat. First beer is on me brother 🤝🏿

And yet personal protection in California and elsewhere is being taken away. What if someone wants protection while out hiking or camping?

Worked for DOJ back in the mid 90's. The narc units from Riverside and San Berdoo were pulling out grows all under Arrellano-Felix and Sinaloa control. Game wardens weren't involved, unless they stumbled onto a grow and then would notify LE. Seen numerous game wardens shows dating back a decade and they are dealing with wildlife issues. Talked to a warden in Newport Beach who stated the judges don't hardly look at poaching cases or they give low sentences. When the guest is talking about all the poisons the cartels were putting in the water, he found out that the TF wasn't created for the damage to the forest, even though the California Governor's always lied about how much they care about the environment, that's all they were interested in doing, that's what we learned at DOJ.

'Belt & Road' through Darien Gap paving a comfortable journey..silver bullets and stakes . Heart breaks for USA. Thanks for Service ( Australia) Vigilance for missing people in National Parks.

Biggest hard Narco bust I ever been involved with was at sea and we used the game wardens authority to make it happen and they have a ton. Those dudes are vital to any anti Narco task Force and I enjoyed the 5 yrs shoulder to shoulder with them.

God bless you guys keep praying too and have faith more are for this than against much respect

I been hearing the cartels are in Maine and up north now too. Cali is just where they started at

Thank you.

Outstanding my Brother..KEEP UP THE GOOD FIGHT..NEVER SURRENDER..HOLD THE LINE AT ANY COST..GODS GOT YOUR SIX.PREACHER ONE OUT

How are we letting this continue?