Cartels Operating in America's Forests (with John Nores) - Change Agents with Andy Stumpf

Change Agents with Andy Stumpf

IRONCLAD

Society & Culture

4.8 • 607 Ratings

🗓️ 8 August 2023

⏱️ 55 minutes

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Partners: HVMN – You can find Ketone-IQ at https://hvmn.com/changeagents to save 30% on your first subscription. John Nores is the author of the book Hidden War: How Special Operations Game Wardens Are Reclaiming Wildlands From the Drug Cartels as well as War in the Woods: Combating the Marijuana Cartels on America’s Public Lands. The 2nd edition of Hidden War is out now. John served as a Game Warden for the California Department of Fish and Wildlife for more than 25 years. He helped develop and lead the Marijuana Enforcement Team (MET), an elite tactical unit targeting cartel drug operations on California’s public lands and created the agency’s sniper capability. Today, he speaks nationally on domestic public safety and environmental crime threats, teaches tactical preparedness, hosts RecoilTV’s Thin Green Line film series, and co-hosts the Thin Green Line and Warden’s Watch podcasts. Change Agents is an IRONCLAD original. Shop IRONCLAD Apparel: https://shop.thisisironclad.com/ Change Agents is an IRONCLAD original. Visit https://www.thisisironclad.com to learn more. Be sure to subscribe to @thisisironclad on YouTube and major social platforms. Follow us on Social - Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/thisisironclad Twitter: https://www.twitter.com/ThisIsIRONCLAD#changeagents #Andystumpf #ironclad Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	And then we saw them. We saw two growers in green BDUs with SKS or AK-47s, machetes.
0:09.9	There were two of them and they looked completely foreign to anything I would have ever seen in my
0:16.0	woods up to that point. They looked more like a Sando-Nista crew running around in Nicaragua in the jungle.
0:22.5	It was crazy. And what was really crazy is was the amount of fieldcraft and stealth they were
0:29.3	executing. They were quiet. They whispered. The guy behind the point guy would occasionally
0:37.2	look over his left shoulder and check behind him.
0:39.1	He do what our tailgunners do on our tactical units so that you did on the teams.
0:42.9	They were always had their heads on a swivel.
0:44.8	They were always, even when they were talking, they were looking around slowly.
0:47.8	They weren't making sudden movements.
0:49.4	They were ghosts.
0:50.3	And I went, okay, this is a whole new wildlife enemy, man. This is crazy. Who are these guys?
0:56.0	How can I help?
0:59.0	How can I be useful in ending needless suffering?
1:02.0	Do not be afraid of work that has no end.
1:06.0	We have to organize a social movement.
1:10.0	We have an opportunity to lead by example versus just talking, hot air.
1:17.6	I think the more people in this fight, the more we grow, eventually it could change.
1:23.6	The people are the ones that can make the change.
1:26.6	Welcome back to The people are the ones that can make the change.
1:34.0	Welcome back to Change Agents, an ironclad original.
1:44.7	Today we're going to be talking about Mexican cartel-led trespass-grow operations on public lands all throughout the United States with a man named John Norris, who was a game warden for the California Department of Fish and Wildlife for more than 25 years. Now, if you're
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