Editing Emerald Triangle (section)

==In popular culture==
[[The Lookouts]], founded in 1985 by [[Larry Livermore]], who also founded [[Lookout! Records]], were [[Tré Cool|Tré Cool's]] first band. The punk rock band was named for the fire lookout at Iron Peak in Mendocino County, which led local marijuana growers to threaten to burn down Livermore's house for bringing too much publicity to their hilly isolated region of the Emerald Triangle near [[Spyrock, California|Spyrock]].<ref>{{Cite news|last=Livermore|first=Lawrence|date=September 15, 2011|title=Spy Rock Memories, Park 9|url=https://www.theava.com/archives/12151|access-date=2021-07-13|work=Anderson Valley Advertiser}}</ref> The band wrote many songs about the surrounding area on [[Mendocino Homeland]] and [[Spy Rock Road]], an album named for the road lined with marijuana grows that leads to Iron Peak. Livermore also wrote ''Spy Rock Memories'', a 2013 book about his time living off the grid in the heart of the Emerald Triangle.

''[[Homegrown (film)|Homegrown]]'' is a 1998 movie starring [[Billy Bob Thornton]] that follows marijuana growers in an unspecific area of the Emerald Triangle, most likely northern Mendocino County.

On the TV show ''[[Lost (2004 TV series)|Lost]]'', during flashback scenes in the episode "[[Further Instructions]]", [[John Locke (Lost)|John Locke]] picks up a hitchhiker who happens to be an undercover police officer on State Route 36 and brings him back to a farm near [[Bridgeville, California|Bridgeville]], where they grow marijuana in a greenhouse.

''[[Humboldt County (film)|Humboldt County]]'' is a 2008 comedy-drama about a medical school dropout who drives north to Humboldt County to live on a pot farm.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://variety.com/2008/film/markets-festivals/humboldt-county-1200535723/|title=Humboldt County|date=19 March 2008|work=Variety |accessdate=27 April 2021}}</ref>

In "Object Impermanence", an episode of [[Showtime (TV network)|Showtime's]] ''[[Weeds (TV series)|Weeds]]'', Nancy Botwin drives to Heylia James' boobytrapped outdoor marijuana grow in Humboldt County.

[[Discovery Channel| Discovery Channel's]] ''[[Pot Cops]]'', a 2013 docuseries, followed the Humboldt County Sheriff's Office's Marijuana Enforcement Team in 2013.<ref>{{Cite news|date=February 8, 2013|title=Spotlight on North Coast Pot and Humboldt Cops|url=https://www.times-standard.com/2013/02/08/spotlight-on-north-coast-pot-and-humboldt-cops-discovery-channel-set-to-air-two-new-marijuana-themed-shows/|access-date=2020-04-27|work=The Times-Standard}}</ref>

The 2013 book ''[[Humboldt: Life on America's Marijuana Frontier]]'' by Emily Brady, is written about the marijuana industry in Humboldt County and the surrounding Emerald Triangle.<ref>{{Cite news|last=Harkinson|first=Josh|date=June 27, 2013|title=Quick Reads: 'Humboldt' by Emily Brady|url=https://www.motherjones.com/crime-justice/2013/06/quick-reads-humboldt-emily-brady/|access-date=2022-09-28|work=[[Mother Jones (magazine)|Mother Jones]]}}</ref>

''[[Welcome to Willits]]'' is a 2016 horror movie which takes place in the Emerald Triangle.

Amazon Prime's ''[[Budding Prospects#TV adaptation|Budding Prospects]]'' was a 2017 pilot episode for a series based on the [[Budding Prospects|1984 novel of the same name]] by [[T. C. Boyle]] that was set in Mendocino County in the 1980s. Amazon released the pilot but did not greenlight the series.<ref name="Amazon-Budding Prospects">{{cite web|url=https://www.amazon.com/dp/B06WLQVW6P/|title=Budding Prospects|publisher=Amazon |access-date=April 27, 2021|archive-date=November 13, 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201113173054/https://www.amazon.com/dp/B06WLQVW6P/|url-status=live}}</ref>

Two other nationally distributed paperback books written about marijuana cultivation in the Emerald Triangle include Steve Chapple's 1984 book ''Outlaws in Babylon: Shocking True Stories on the Marijuana Frontier'' and [[Ray Raphael]]'s 1985 book ''Cash Crop: An American Dream''. 

[[Netflix]]'s 2018 true crime television series ''[[Murder Mountain (TV series)|Murder Mountain]]'' examines the high rate of missing people and murders in Humboldt County. The show covers the history of illegal marijuana farming including the relationship of local farmers and local authorities as the area attempts to transition into a legal cannabis industry.<ref>{{Cite news|last=Schou|first=Nick|date=February 8, 2019|title=Sweet Streams: Into the Emerald Triangle's Murder Mountain|url=https://www.ocweekly.com/285410-2/|access-date=2020-10-01|work=OC Weekly}}</ref>

The 2020 film ''Freeland'' is about a longtime Humboldt County marijuana grower, played by [[Krisha Fairchild]], growing illegally despite the availability of the legal market. <ref>{{Cite news|last=Linden|first=Sheri|date=April 4, 2020|title='Freeland': Film Review - SXSW 2020|url=https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/movies/movie-reviews/freeland-1281618/|access-date=2022-09-30|work=The Hollywood Reporter}}</ref>

The 2021 documentary ''Lady Buds'', produced by [[Gravitas Ventures]], about women who work in the marijuana industry in Northern California, is being developed into a scripted comedy feature film and a non-scripted series.<ref>{{Cite news|last=White|first=Peter|date=February 23, 2022|title='Lady Buds': Cannabis Doc To Get Scripted Feature Adaptation From Hellcat & Non-Scripted Series Spinoff From Yoruba Media Labs|url=https://deadline.com/2022/02/lady-buds-cannabis-doc-spinoffs-1234958078/|access-date=2022-09-30|work=Deadline}}</ref>

[[Hulu| Hulu's]] 2021 docuseries ''[[Sasquatch (TV series)|Sasquatch]]'' is based on the murder of pot growers in Mendocino County in the 1990s, purportedly perpetrated by [[Bigfoot]].<ref>{{Cite news|last=Gentile|first=Dan|date=April 19, 2021|title=Hulu true crime doc 'Sasquatch' investigates whether Bigfoot murdered three NorCal cannabis farmers|url=https://www.sfgate.com/streaming/article/hulu-true-crime-sasquatch-murder-cannabis-farmers-16104896.php|access-date=2021-04-27|work=SFGate}}</ref>

The 2021 crime podcast ''[[Dark Woods (podcast)|Dark Woods]]'', produced by [[Dick Wolf]] and set in Humboldt County that includes a trespass marijuana grow on public land, is currently being developed by [[Universal Television]] for a TV adaptation.<ref>{{Cite news|last=Goff|first=Andrew|date=November 17, 2021|title=Do You Need to Listen to Dick Wolf's Creepy, Set-in-Humboldt Scripted Podcast Drama?|url=https://lostcoastoutpost.com/2021/nov/17/do-you-need-listen-creepy-new-set-humboldt-scripte/|access-date=2022-09-28|work=Lost Coast Outpost}}</ref><ref>{{Cite news|last=White|first=Peter|date=November 15, 2021|title=Dick Wolf Podcast 'Dark Woods' Gets TV Adaptation With Universal Television|url=https://deadline.com/2021/11/dick-wolf-podcast-dark-woods-series-adaptation-universal-television-1234873107/|access-date=2022-09-28|work=Deadline Hollywood}}</ref>