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High Sierra Trail Volunteers director Shane Krogen bails a length of irrigation tubing left at a marijuana garden Sheriff's deputies eradicated early in the summer. Deputies pulled more than 4,000 plants from the four-garden plantation in Castle Rock State Park.*
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| High Sierra Trail Volunteers crew member Dionisio Paniagua, a 33-year-old Costa Rican nature guide, tapes together lengths of irrigation tubing and a pellet gun found at an abandoned marijuana garden while director Shane Krogen holds the bundle.*
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Ron Snedegar, 62, of Kingsberg, reworks the soil to eliminate the holes and terraces marijuana farmers dug after they clear-cut the hillside in Castle Rock State Park. High Sierra Trail Volunteers tried to clean out trash and equipment abandoned in the gardens, as well as rehabilitate the environment, during a three-day clean-up effort in mid-October.*
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| Evan Savage, a 24-year-old San Diego resident, removes black plastic and releases water from a pool created by marijuana farmers to irrigate their crops in Castle Rock State Park. Rerouting seasonal drainages is one of the most devastating environmental impacts of clandestine pot plantations, State Parks rangers said.*
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The High Sierra Trail Volunteers donated a weekend to clean up marijuana gardens left in Castle Rock State Park. Crew member Dionisio Paniagua found in a campsite on Thursday and other volunteers carted out picks and shovels that their group will use.*
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| In one campsite found in Castle Rock State Park, marijuana farmers had built sleeping quarters, a cooking area and a table with small logs then covered the area with dark-colored plastic tarps to hide the camp.*
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Volunteers pick up trash Thursday at a campsite used by marijuana farmers tending to plants well off the beaten path in Castle Rock State Park. A helicopter lifted out nets Friday filled with 1,000 to 1,200 pounds of trash collected at this campsite and four surrounding marijuana gardens.*
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| Crew member Norm Allington, 62, sorts through trash left in the cooking area at a marijuana farmer's campsite in the backcountry of Castle Rock State Park. Allington found several fuel cans, like the ones in his hand, as well as pots, pans, a full set of silverware, canned foods and a bag of moldy potatoes.
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High Sierra Trail Volunteers crew member Bruce Loewen, 51, reaches down a set of dirt steps to pick up plastic food wrappers left at a pot farmer's campsite. Loewen, a UPS employee from Fresno, has been volunteering with High Sierra for about two years.*
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| Volunteers cut down what's left of a sleeping area at a campsite near clandestine marijuana gardens in Castle Rock State Park on Thursday. The farmers had cut down trees to build the bed.*
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