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Officials recently removed over 2,000 marijuana plants within Sequoia National Park

The cultivation site encompassed about 13-acres of public land

The move is part of a two-decade-long battle against illegal marijuana cultivation in California National Parks

Officials at a popular California national park recently removed over 2,000 marijuana plants from public land.

On Aug. 21, the National Park Service (NPS) issued a press release detailing park rangers and the Bureau of Land Management’s joint effort to remove an illegal cultivation site within Sequoia National Park .

Authorities found 2,377 fully grown marijuana plants and approximately 2,000 pounds of trash and infrastructure. The unwanted items were removed by hand and by helicopter sling-load operations —

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