The two-day eradication campaign resulted in the destruction of more than 19,400 marijuana plants valued at $23 million on the street, said Sgt. Steve Carney, head of the sheriff’s narcotics division.
"It was an extreme success," Carney said. "We were able to eradicate many plants in only a two-day amount of time."
The remote garden at the park north of Boulder Creek was near the park’s Castle Rock, and officers arrived by helicopter.
Temperatures reaching triple digits June 7 and 8 would have made a hike to the area exhausting, and as it was, the crew was bordering on dehydration, Carney said.
The helicopter was provided by a team from the department of justice’s Campaign Against Marijuana Planting eradication program.
The crop in each case was consistent with Mexican national grows by drug trafficking organizations, Carney said. No arrests were made at any of the sites.
In early May, Carney’s team destroyed 6,000 plants in a Big Basin pot grow.
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