Poison plants are being used to protect ancient Indian burial grounds.
The Three Rivers Levee Improvement Authority, the Corp of Engineers and Reclamation 784 are using the plants to try and keep looters out of the precious property.
They have also planted blackberry bushes, rose bushes because of their thorns. They hope the combo will make people think twice before entering the property and stealing pieces of California’s history.
“If you put up a fence and put a sign that says stay away someone knows something's here you plant a plant that's already here people just see another plant and that's really what we are going for keep it as natural as possible but make it so people don't want to be there,” says Nikki Polson, with the Corp of Engineers.
Three other areas on the Feather River have also been planted with these detouring vegetation.
