Mendocino Forest Pot Bust
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Nearly 90 people were arrested and close to 500,000 marijuana plants discovered in what has been described as the biggest eradication operation in California history. July 29, 2011
John C. Heil, a spokesman for the U.S. Forest Service, told a gathering of media at a garden site near Paskenta that $1.2 million in marijuana plants werre destroyed on Wednesday in Tehama County sites alone.
Rob Parsons / Tri-County Newspapers