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SEQUOIA NATIONAL PARK, Calif. (KSEE/KGPE) - Over 2,000 marijuana plants and pounds of trash were removed by rangers from an amerciable cultivation tract successful Sequoia National Park past week, parkland officials said.
Park officials said that a full of 2,377 full-grown marijuana plants and astir 2,000 lb of trash and infrastructure were removed by manus and chopper sling-load operations.
The tract besides contained a semi-automatic pistol and respective hazardous chemicals, including astir 1 gallon of Methamidophos, a highly toxic insecticide that has been banned successful the U.S. since 2009.
Park officials said instrumentality enforcement rangers detected and raided this cultivation tract successful 2024, but the tract was not rehabilitated until this twelvemonth owed to the beingness of hazardous chemicals.
According to officials, determination was harm to astir a 13-acre area. Officials said the harm included grounds of poaching activity, improvement of campsites room areas, and cultivation sites successful a wilderness country and illegally maintained trails covering astir 2 miles.
There was besides diversion of the earthy travel of h2o from a adjacent creek and installation of irrigation lines, operation of respective ample pits to store diverted h2o from a adjacent creek and the digging of terraces into the hillside for planting of marijuana.
No arrests person been made. This is an ongoing investigation.
