Pot plants yanked from Mt. Tamalpais, Mendocino forest

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SAN FRANCISCO — Northern California authorities have another busy week destroying large marijuana gardens that were being cultivated on public lands.

Marin County narcotics officers uprooted nearly 7,000 pot plants with a street value of $20 million on Wednesday and Thursday. The growing operation was found around Kent Lake, a reservoir on the slopes of Mt. Tamalpais.

Sheriff's department spokeswoman Debra Barry says they also found several campsites, gun ammunition, pesticides and rat poison.

Glenn County sheriff's officials say they found more than 34,000 marijuana plants worth about $70 million earlier in the week while raiding five separate gardens in the Mendocino National Forest. They destroyed another 7,000 plants in the forest on Wednesday.

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