CAMP nets over 100,000 plants in Humboldt

Efforts focused thus far in tribal, timber and federal lands

Humboldt Sentinel staff
8/30/09

Hoopa

The Campaign Against Marijuana Planting went on a rampage this week in the forestlands of the North Coast, eradicating 74,100 marijuana plants in just four days, and approximately 102,500 in total this summer in Humboldt County. Statewide, CAMP claims credit for eradicating over 3 million growing marijuana plants this year.

CAMP works with the Humboldt County Sheriff’s Office, the U.S. Marshall’s Service and the U.S. Forest Service locally, targeting tribal, timber company and USFS lands primarily in their eradication efforts.

On Monday the CAMP teams eradicated 36,500 plants from USFS property near Waterman Ridge above Willow Creek. The next day, 2,000 plants were cut from timber company property near Shively. On Wednesday, teams took 17,000 plants on timber company and other private property in Redwood Valley. The next day the CAMP temas wound out the week with another 18,600 plants found on Hoopa tribal land near Supply Creek, where law enforcement also found ammunition for handguns and other evidence indicating the involvement of drug trafficking organizations according to HCSO public information officer Brenda Godsey.

CAMP conducted its first sweep of Humboldt County in the last week of July, when they killed 28,400 plants in four days, including 13,000 from Hoopa Valley tribal land and timber company land, 1,000 on USFS land near Orleans, 8,200 plants from State Parks land and timber company land near Pepperwood, and 6,200 plants from timber lands near Blocksburg.

CAMP will continue operations in Humboldt County throughout the summer.