Sequoia National Forest Pot
August 2008: Multiple law enforcement agencies launched an operation to remove sprawling crops of marijuana from California's Sequoia National Forest. Plants numbering in the hundreds of thousands are believed to be cultivated mostly by illegal immigrants on behalf of Mexican drug cartels.
Fast Facts
- Name of operation: LOCCUST
- 38 arrests
- 29 automatic weapons confiscated
- 420,000 marijuana plants destroyed
- Sequoia National Forest is over 1.2 million acres
- Pot farmers work in armed camps
- Irrigation is done by damming natural creeks
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