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GREEN BAY, Wis. — Northern Wisconsin’s Chequamegon-Nicolet National Forest is a vast, verdant getaway for campers, hikers and anglers. But hidden within was a marijuana megafarm.
Investigators say a band of Latino men turned the forest’s southeastern tip into a giant pot farm, growing thousands of plants on remote plots, moving supplies along forgotten logging roads, and buying supplies and ammunition at local stores.
The style matches that of Mexican cartels that have been using public land in the U.S. to grow marijuana and avoid the risk and expense of smuggling the drugs across the border. The Associated Press
