Wondering if anyone has had to address this issue.
First off, I have no open areas to get much light. Not sure if that is good for this crop or not. Maybe I don't need to worry about it if they need 1/2 day of sunlight.
My instincts are to not start a fight without knowing who the enemy is but my guess is that it is some locals looking to make a few bucks.
Not interested in having the forest set on fire as pay back either, it isn't worth it.
I am too remote to get sherrif involved. I am thinking that that best method might be to slowly kill it with some roundup so they think its just a bad place to plant it.
If I see someone on my land, I would chase them off but guessing I will never see them as you can hear anything in the woods with all the leaves and sticks on the ground.
Anyone else solved this?
As others have mentioned, the first thing you need to do is verify that you actually have a problem.
Personally, if I found a couple of plants on my own property, I'd destroy them (nah, the thought of harvesting the plant for personal consumption never crossed my mind LOL). If it looks like a crap load of plants, I'd be calling the sheriff.
In North Carolina, I don't think you're ever to rural to get your local sheriff and his department involved if you actually have an issue. We've been at our place for close to 17 years now (I believe the next county over from you). Never had to call the sheriff's for 16 years. I had to call them this year due to some issues (not pot growers), and honestly found our local sheriffs department absolutely great to work with.
That said, with all due respect, if you call your sheriff's department believing you have a problem with pot plants growing on your property, the common sense question you most likely will be asked is if you've seen the plants yourself on your property. If you tell them "no, but my neighbors are a reliable source of information and they say it's happening" I don't know if I could hold it against your local sheriff if they gave you a line of crap and never showed up.
I'm thinking any type of "growing operation" isn't going to have stupid people growing weed on someone else's property that can be easily found, but since I've never tried to grow weed, I have no clue how stupid people could be in that area of life.
However, we go back to square one. Without knowing how much is actually being grown on your property, we're all playing the speculation game.