Thousands of Marijuana Plants, Thousands of Pounds Found During Raid on the Woods Ranch Yesterday

Tuppies of bud. [All photos from the Humboldt County Sheriff's Office]

Tuppies of bud. [All photos from the Humboldt County Sheriff’s Office]

A bust at a cannabis cultivation site yesterday north of Redway yielded thousands of plants and thousands of pounds of marijuana. One search warrant was served on three parcels. Those parcels were all owned by the same owner, according to Samantha Karges, spokesperson for the Humboldt County Sheriff’s Office.

Press release from the Humboldt County Sheriff’s Drug Enforcement Unit (DEU):

On August 21, 2018, deputies with the Humboldt County Sheriff’s Office Drug Enforcement Unit (DEU) served one search warrant to investigate illegal cannabis cultivation in the Wood Ranch Road area of Southern Humboldt. The California Department of Fish and Wildlife, Humboldt County Environmental Health and HAZMAT Unit, Humboldt County Planning and Building Department and the State Water Board assisted in the service of the warrants.

Three parcels were investigated during the service of the warrant. The parcels did not possess nor were in the process of actively obtaining a commercial cannabis permit with the County of Humboldt.

During the service of the warrant, deputies eradicated approximately 21,053 growing cannabis plants. Deputies also seized and destroyed over 3,400 pounds of cannabis bud, over 2,800 pounds of cannabis shake, approximately 275 pounds of processed cannabis and approximately 57 pounds of pre-rolled cannabis joints. Deputies also located approximately 10 pounds of vape pens, an approximately 69-pound box of vape cartridges and approximately 2,700 gallons of diesel stored on the property.
Assisting agencies found the following violations:

– Two stream alteration violations (up to $8,000 fine per day, per violation)
– Two depositing trash in or near a waterway violations (up to $20,000 fine per day, per violation)
– Failure to establish a Hazardous Materials Business Plan (up to $5,000 fine per day, per violation)
– Aboveground storage tank in operation with no Spill Prevention Countermeasure and Control (SPCC) plan (up to $5,000 fine per day, per violation)
– Commercial cannabis ordinance violations (up to $10,000 fine per day)
– Improper storage and removal of solid waste violations (up to $25,000 fine per day, per violation)
No arrests were made during the service of the warrants. Additional violations with civil fines are expected to be filed by the assisting agencies.

Anyone with information about this case or related criminal activity is encouraged to call the Humboldt County Sheriff’s Office at (707) 445-7251 or the Sheriff’s Office Crime Tip line at (707) 268-2539.

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That sauce
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That sauce
5 years ago

Ouch

Brodie
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Brodie
5 years ago
Reply to  That sauce

Are all grows now unmanned, there are no arrest reported. Really big grow on auto pilot.

horrible person
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horrible person
5 years ago
Reply to  Brodie

Nope someone has to mix the nutrients to feed the plants daily so someone comes.

robert
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robert
5 years ago

no they don’t. You could have an automated pump hooked up to a 1000 gallon tank. You would only have to come once a week or so.

automattic
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automattic
5 years ago
Reply to  Brodie

No there just not concidered criminal anymore. Hence the fines. No arrest needed to be made because they can fine the property owner hundreds of thousands of dollars and put a lien against the property also they destroy the entire year’s Harvest putting the guy way behind so it’s a win-win for the county

Ouchie
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Ouchie
5 years ago

Ouch! No permit no plants.
Whats there not to understand?
Pay your extorters or don’t get to play!
Pretty simple really.
No property will be next.
How on earth you gonna pay them fines? Be glad the county still gladly accepts drug money.
But that will have its day in court as well. By taking cash and money from illigimate sources they are also committing a felony aiding and abetting criminal entities.
Word is the supes will all go to jail before too long as real authorities are getting highly interested.
An entire county of scoundrels from higher ups to their enforcers.
Hope to see them all locked up!

Sam Bennett
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Sam Bennett
5 years ago
Reply to  Ouchie

Yeah, …that’s what qanon said. Pfft.
This whole thing was built on stealing and killing. You keep waiting for the man to save the day. Corruption is the post doctoral education for the upwardly motivated. Got It!

Lost
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Lost
5 years ago

Looks like a nice set up. I hope instead of trashing the infrastructure it can be converted into a legal agricultural zone.

Guest
Guest
Guest
5 years ago
Reply to  Lost

I hate to say so but I agree- if they have legal access to enough water that they are not pirating creeks dry. It is a beautiful set up. It is organized, no swaths of chemically sterilized ground. Lots of money used. No pictures of the water system though.

future land auction bidder
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future land auction bidder
5 years ago
Reply to  Guest

where exactly is this parcel?

Deb
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Deb
5 years ago
Reply to  Guest

They said 2 violations stream alteration. So they were illegally taking water.

Zoltan
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Zoltan
5 years ago
Reply to  Deb

Aero,hydro,aguaponics use 1/10 water,1/6 fertilizer.verticle farming uses 1 /10 area.NASA aeroponic,verticle oxygen caking lettuce recycling own sewage.archaic gardening suits marijuanos.john glen(rip) took Dexedrine to the moon.

Lostcoast
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Lostcoast
5 years ago
Reply to  Deb

No the article is wrong!!!! Maybe dig up truth instead of just assuming

Little me
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Little me
5 years ago
Reply to  Deb

Nope not true article is lies don’t believe everything you read that’s what’s wrong w people if you don’t know shit the fuck up

Dragincar
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Dragincar
5 years ago
Reply to  Guest

According to the article, they had illeagally diverted 1 or 2 streams for water supply.

Mom n pops kid
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Mom n pops kid
5 years ago
Reply to  Lost

Let’s hope no corporation swoops in on it

popcorn
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popcorn
5 years ago
Reply to  Mom n pops kid

Because all of the big ag corporations can’t wait to grow in a dessert 100s of miles from their markets using a tweaked out workforce. Take the property and turn it over to public land.

Zoltan
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Zoltan
5 years ago
Reply to  popcorn

Cadillac desert.

Ben Round
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Ben Round
5 years ago
Reply to  popcorn

Yeah. Really? One person I heard who moved his operation to Temecula, in the ‘desert’ of So Ca, said the strong winds and pervasive dust were too much. He plans to move back to Humboldt!

popcorn
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popcorn
5 years ago
Reply to  Ben Round

God luck wit dat.

Clint Eastwood
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Clint Eastwood
5 years ago
Reply to  Lost

Right on it was clean tho…

old local
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old local
5 years ago

That’s a lot of ganja man…obsessed much? And I bet he forgot to plant a row of tomatoes. Or squash, or peppers, etc.

Twinkle Winklestein
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Twinkle Winklestein
5 years ago

Good riddance!!!, that guy is a greedy, environmental Goblin. Get all those jerks out of Humboldt County. Water thief.

nearly unrelated
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nearly unrelated
5 years ago

One cannot steal water no more than you can steal air. Water rights do not set up water as property and for a strong reason. One can damage streams, pollute streams, run creeks dry and many other crimes against the environment and even the water itself, but one cannot steal a God given necessity of life.

We want to be careful about the concepts we stand behind as famine and thirst are coming in the wake of climate change.

Life time local
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Life time local
5 years ago

“– Aboveground storage tank in operation with no Spill Prevention Countermeasure and Control (SPCC) plan (up to $5,000 fine per day, per violation)”
Ironic that one of the pictures shows a containment around that aboveground tank allegedly without any spill prevention countermeasures.
It almost looks like from the sound of it these people could have been trying to go legal. And that wording not “actively” Persuing a county cannabis permit bothers me too…
Hay county officials ripping apart these Humboldt County communities could you go after the approximately 12500 growers that have not signed up for a permit in any way rather than those who have showed some effort.

Guest
Guest
Guest
5 years ago

Active permit- Apply, pay fees, follow rules and do so timely. No active permit- apply, pay fees and do nothing further. Or simply start with doing nothing.

Lostcoast
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Lostcoast
5 years ago
Reply to  Guest

Anyone can look for themselves the permit was active !!!

Helllbilly
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Helllbilly
5 years ago
Reply to  Lostcoast

Link?

Lostcoast
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Lostcoast
5 years ago
Reply to  Helllbilly

You don’t allready know how to look ??? Interesting that you even have anything to say

Anti troll league
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Anti troll league
5 years ago
Reply to  Lostcoast

You’re the one “saying”. All that was asked was that you show that you really know something. Oh well. Guess that is answered.

DELLIB
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DELLIB
5 years ago
Reply to  Lostcoast

Back up Back up…Code 420

JP
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JP
5 years ago
Reply to  Helllbilly

No that link is to prime to give to tje trolls

hey kool aid
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hey kool aid
5 years ago
Reply to  Lostcoast

well i reckon he can wipe his ass with those permits.

SparkleMahn
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5 years ago
Reply to  hey kool aid

It’s like this!

Anon
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Anon
5 years ago
Reply to  Lostcoast

Look where? We need a name for that.

Guest
Guest
Guest
5 years ago
Reply to  Guest

It was an active permit sadly. Dude has been backed by clubs from the bay area for year. I see a lawsuit coming.

Garbornriginal
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Garbornriginal
5 years ago
Reply to  Guest

Is that a tier 4 final generator? Thought that they were required if (temporarily) permitted or in the permit process.

Seb
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Seb
5 years ago

That’s a diesel tank with the block wall around it, not water.

Alikat
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Alikat
5 years ago

If you aren’t going to pursue a cultivation permit, at the very least, make sure you are in compliance with EPA regulations (create a simple spill prevention plan online, print it, and post it onsite; have emergency spill cleanup materials readily available; label all hazardous waste generated and stored on site; etc). Being compliant with known regulations will save you a ton of money in fines and fees.
The pictures of this site show a relatively clean and orderly operation. It is still a bunch of b.s. that the grower is blowing it up and thumbing their nose at the new legal, regulated game.
It also seems like the grower is putting on the facade of being legal and selling legal product (pounds of rolled joints discovered by LEO; organized tubs of product with apparent labels). Not very trust worthy. Apparently, the grower’s associates and workers weren’t so trustworthy either. I’m guessing this bust was complaint driven since warrants were obtained.
A little extra effort can save a lot in fines. Being good to your workers and keeping one’s own mouth shut are also good ideas. Just saying.

I left my tolling motor in El Segundo
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I left my tolling motor in El Segundo
5 years ago
Reply to  Alikat

Hogs get fat, pigs get slaughtered. Damn, greedy, hippie-posers.

Those freakin vape cartridges are the most non-hippie invention evah. Take 40 hits and toss it in the landfill or on the side of the road. Made with poison and exported to high schools across the country. School resource officers are finding more of these oil vapes than cigarettes.

Unapologetic!
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Unapologetic!
5 years ago

That just the anti-cig brigades propaganda, to insure they have future jobs, since they did so well with their anti-cig campaigns.

moocow
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5 years ago

Have to agree – it’s the Bic lighter syndrome all over again……but for some people they are apparently worthwhile

I left my tolling motor in El Segundo
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I left my tolling motor in El Segundo
5 years ago
Reply to  moocow

For some people meth is apparently worthwhile.

Zoltan
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Zoltan
5 years ago

Viable option for 95% of humanity.but setting is critical.where I’m from there is said to be a devil that flies around the goat corral and endangers children that go out at night.i really don’t believe much of that common talk.

Me
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Me
5 years ago
Reply to  Alikat

You don’t know them shame on You to speak based on fake news !!! Humboldt has lost their minds … going after compliant permitted farms and ignoring the 2500 not signing up Scarry Scarry seems like if you get a permitt your fucked and if you don’t your fucked and then some got letters while the locals get the worst treatment ever ! . Hmmmm sounds like they wanna fine us force us out and then the next person to permitt will pay the hefty fees and they are hefty !!! And then be forced out ! I am watching loads of revenue for this town leave . So many people out of jobs now … what’s next for this town …. (ghost)

Garbornriginal
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Garbornriginal
5 years ago
Reply to  Me

The sky is falling the sky is falling. Mixed light permits? Tier 4 compliant, or is that Generator under 50 hp? Is the generator plumbed direct or is it fueled daily? 1099 to the employees? Ada compliance? Just a few questions. The permit process/structure is very rigorous. I am sure that if they are/were in the permit process that these issues are/were being addressed.

Ben James
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Ben James
5 years ago

Product destined for states that are still exercising the stupidity of cannabis prohibition. Cannabis exports from free states like California, Colorado, Washington, Oregon, Nevada, Massachusetts, Vermont is a multi billion-dollar business. With money like that on the table people aren’t going to ignore it. The only logical path forward is full legalization Nationwide.

Lone ranger
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Lone ranger
5 years ago
Reply to  Ben James

Yeah,these guys were definitely exporting ,that s why they didn’t have any bud at their site, cause the export market is ice cold like the whole industry ,party is over ,2 more years of a slow death lol

Farmville
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Farmville
5 years ago
Reply to  Lone ranger

I disagree. Product was flying out of there so fast they barely had time to load it up into totes and stack them in the garage to get ready for the next big ass tote run.

Emily
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Emily
5 years ago
Reply to  Lone ranger

Haha ok sure

Me
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Me
5 years ago
Reply to  Lone ranger

Definately ??? Really ??? You know this based on the story ???? Where is your information coming from ??? [edit]

Sharon
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Sharon
5 years ago
Reply to  Ben James

Exporting Cannabis to any other state is considered interstate drug trafficking, and a Federal Offense. Granted, the further east you can get your product the more money you can make, and the harder jail sentence you will get, depending on the state. Southern Prisons are full of poor fools that got caught with Marijuana and got more time for a joint than some guy that got caught committing armed robbery.

Squeeler
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Squeeler
5 years ago
Reply to  Sharon

I know a guy doing 3 years for having 450 #’s on him in North Carolina. I guess if you were only halfway across the country it would have been 18 months.

Nick
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Nick
5 years ago
Reply to  Ben James

There where a few busts recently in MA where thousands of lbs where being shipped here from California.

hey kool aid
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hey kool aid
5 years ago
Reply to  Nick

vape cartridges and cell phones. connect the dots.

sponsored by miller light
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sponsored by miller light
5 years ago
Reply to  Nick

The mules have either gotten more greedy or careless. Lots of SoHum weed getting into the hands of out of state law enforcement.

SickOfYourNegativity
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SickOfYourNegativity
5 years ago
Reply to  Ben James

Your a fucking retard

Brian
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Brian
5 years ago

Damn Gina!

The Other Black Market Growers
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The Other Black Market Growers
5 years ago

Excellent! Excellent!! I just felt prices go up a hair. Keep going HCSO!! We love you!!

Stand and Fight
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Stand and Fight
5 years ago

In my opinion it Looks like Humboldt County extortionists ripped off another farmer who appears to be environmentally conscious and clean in his approach…. I wonder how much money was stuffed down the deputies undies,… Hiw many pounds were slipped between the cracks into the deputies trunks only to be resold on the black market…. Pretty nice setup, I wonder if the deputies cut any of his fuel lines and let the diesel flow into the creek, ching ching another $250,000 for the ripoff county of Humboldt, did the “professional public servants” kill any famiky pets or steal any family heirlooms this time, looks like new schiol clothes and bmx and motorbikes for the deputies kids after ripping off this farm like all the others….. Can anyone say Oppressive County Minions

Me
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Me
5 years ago

I agree ! That’s exactly what’s happening to most of us trying to permit … this county is lagging and holding us back ! That can’t even seem to keep up w is unless they stealing from us

Scooter
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Scooter
5 years ago

. . Amber waves of grain. . . .purple mountains majesty above the fruited plain. . . never mind!

Mom n pops kid
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Mom n pops kid
5 years ago

Funny how high n mighty the yuppys of our town preach about getting permits. Teachers pet much? Hypocrites I say. A grow that big could very well have been trying to get permitted. Since when does everyone trust the shitstym?

Guest
Guest
Guest
5 years ago
Reply to  Mom n pops kid

Whether or not they had a permit is easily proven. No “belief” required.

Lostcoast
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Lostcoast
5 years ago

This story has many lies ! And when locals try to do the right thing this county is pushing us out . All the negative comments suck this is by far the cleanest thing I ever saw . Looks like the county lost more business this town is gonna be in Great Depression

warrens buffet
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warrens buffet
5 years ago
Reply to  Lostcoast

“Three parcels were investigated during the service of the warrant. The parcels did not possess nor were in the process of actively obtaining a commercial cannabis permit with the County of Humboldt.”

I expect all of these raids and permits will have the county swimming in cash and the grow bros going out of biz.

Me
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Me
5 years ago
Reply to  warrens buffet

Wrong

rolling hills
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rolling hills
5 years ago
Reply to  Lostcoast

That’s like believing billionaires and millionaires drive a thriving economy. They don’t. It’s the average worker that spends their dough and drives the economy. Millionaires buy yachts which do nearly nothing for the economy. Same goes for growers. Big growers spend their money in Bali.

warrens buffet
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warrens buffet
5 years ago
Reply to  rolling hills

Bali money or Bail money?

Unapologetic!
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Unapologetic!
5 years ago
Reply to  warrens buffet

😂

rollin21
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rollin21
5 years ago
Reply to  rolling hills

You were obviously brought up in the public school system, hence your cluelessness on how an economy functions. Thousands of people are employed to build a yacht. All of the materials have to be made, wood cut etc. before other employed people can build the yacht. Furthermore, Millionaires and Billionaires own businesses that employ people. Theoretically, they have money in the bank that is lent out to people for capital investment etc. Go read Economics In One Lesson and comment when you have a clue.

General Nutz
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General Nutz
5 years ago
Reply to  rollin21

“Thousands of people are employed to build a yacht. ” What!! are they all [edit] and blind? And upkeep of a large yacht is expensive which according to your projections would be at least 5000 [edit] and blind maintenance personnel and thousands of dollars in fuel costs and moorage fees(you can’t park a yacht for free) But I guess there are jobs for taxpayers. Put all the yachts costs together and it doesn’t even come close to what our Gov’t spends on the F-35’s or another aircraft carrier $14 billion just for the hull another 4 $billion to make it float and move forward and another 24 billion for 24 aircraft at a billion a piece, (I have no idea what it costs to keep 3500 personnel on board), (we have 15 in a world with seven seas), or 12,000 tomahawk missiles at $1.5 million dollars each, or 2500 contracts to for profit corporations ( probably the CEO’s own yachts) who lose on average 20% of taxpayer dollars and the list goes on and on and on. But the military hires a lot of people to be put in harm’s way to fight useless unwinnable wars so military corporations can make money(taxpayers money!!).

OMG
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OMG
5 years ago
Reply to  rollin21

Why do you need to bash the public school system !? What the hell people ! Lots of people goto public school and are not stupid

Lostcoast
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Lostcoast
5 years ago
Reply to  rolling hills

Well 50 families plus locally just lost their jobs and they live and spend

Me
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Me
5 years ago
Reply to  rolling hills

Not true ! I believe here the millionaire spends a lot of money on dirt and everything else needed … this looks like 40 families or more just lost jobs !!!!! And they ducking live here !!!! I am so surprised at people’s negativity . Imagine if it was you…… and you spent all that time and money …. and paper work and reading law after law and as it changed you had to change and then ….. that happened and all your employees who have been there for ever just lost their jobs !!! Come on!

Sad but true
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Sad but true
5 years ago
Reply to  Lostcoast

Sad but true. This looked like a pretty nice setup. Can only imagine the cost of having to tear it all down which the county will remediation. But really it will de value the land. Grocery stores and restaraunts are about to feel the brunt of all this along with places like car dealerships and auncillary businesses which is practically everyone. This community survives off the dollars from farms like this. Gville is already a ghost town compared to the boom days and the prices aren’t going anywhere but down. It is sad to imagine what this place will be like in a few years once the county has truly cut its own legs out from underneath it. Yes there will be tax dollars but that make small businesses money. They will feel the squeeze harder then anyone.

OMG
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OMG
5 years ago
Reply to  Sad but true

Agreed

Atson
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Atson
5 years ago

So there goes millions of dollars most of which would have been spent in Humboldt. Meanwhile the rest of the state is making money like mad. Apparently Humboldt government hates everybody in the county. This is nothing new. Humboldt government has always hated hippies. To bad the grewers didn’t pool there resources and use the money to vote out everyone supporting hippie war.

Testes, testes, one two...three?
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Testes, testes, one two...three?
5 years ago

The pics of these busts demonstrates how idiotic and corrupt the “legal and regulated” system is. We, the people, want weed, cheap. Grows this size exist legally and pump out weed. More people could be legally engaging in much smaller grows, flooding the people with “product” at half the going price. Backyard farmers’ markets could exist for people to share, freely if they wanted. But instead govt. is shoving their fist in everybody’s pocket and what could be quickly, easily, safely and cheaply available to everybody is a circus of bureaucracy and cameras and monitoring.

Emily
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Emily
5 years ago

Nice operation. Too bad the county isn’t focusing on messy trashed sites, of which there are plenty

DELLIB
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DELLIB
5 years ago
Reply to  Emily

One of God’s greatest creations is, was, will be, is TIME…

Wolfganga
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Wolfganga
5 years ago
Reply to  Emily

I thought the same thing. But if you’re going to go that big/commercial you better get those permits before pouring all those resources into an operation that big; it’s gonna attract a lot of attention. Gotta hurt….

R-DOG
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R-DOG
5 years ago

Absolutely out of control greed greed greed and more greed how much can one eat

SparkleMahn
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5 years ago
Reply to  R-DOG

Two words: Orson Wells

Hugo
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Hugo
5 years ago

Since when was capitalism outlawed in America ‘Captain’? Say what? You have to live where your enterprise is? Huh.
He’s a narc (I assume that’s what you meant by ‘nark’)? You are saying he narced on himself? ‘Captain Oblivious’ there’s more than a tad bit of jealousy in you because someone else was successful.

Guest
Guest
Guest
5 years ago
Reply to  Hugo

“Some call it bootlegging. Some call it racketeering. I call it a business.” – Al Capone

“I am like any other man. All I do is supply a demand.” – Al Capone

“ I have always been opposed to violence, to shootings. I have fought, yes, but fought for peace. And I believe I can take credit for the peace that now exists in the racket game in Chicago. I believe that the people can thank me for the fact that gang killings here are probably a thing of the past.” – Al Capone ( just a quote I found funny and apropos to the reality of criminality- it corroded society for generations.)

For all the murders, illegal business, extortion, bribery, etc that were attributed to Al Capone, the thing that caught him in the end was tax evasion. When he went to jail for it, the IRS was flooded with people deciding to pay their back taxes.

things you hear
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things you hear
5 years ago
Reply to  Guest

Capone went to prison 2 years before alcohol prohibition ended. Prohibition would have put him out of business anyway.

DELLIB
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DELLIB
5 years ago
Reply to  Guest

So there are 1000 5th graders in the hills 40 years old worth millions when do they start paying taxes?? From the 10 60 acre parcels they own?? All growing pot on? How about the 2.5 million dollar ranch one owns and she’s receiving food stamps?

OMG
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OMG
5 years ago
Reply to  DELLIB

Karma will handle them

read
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5 years ago
Reply to  DELLIB

No one can own 2.5 million dollar ranch and be on food stamps.

commenter
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commenter
5 years ago

dude probably sitting on his 5-10 million$ and figured why not put another half a mill into one more go-round…

Overthistown
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Overthistown
5 years ago
Reply to  commenter

If that happened to me I would fucking leave !!! In fact who is to say it’s not ??? Police can and will do whatever they want ! Hmmmmm in the last year many locals who call this home are leaving …. Leaving bulagarians and anyout of state people alone . Makes no sense

Corrupt extortionist rip off turncoat politics
Guest

No success for anyone anymore in Humboldt,thats the plan by our supervisors!!! The planning and extortion DEP gets big big chunk of your net.you get to be a slave to come up with land payment and expenses,they leave you with just enough to eat and keep slaving.get out of line and they’ll Evan take that from you

Lostcoast
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Lostcoast
5 years ago

Moving on leaving this town !!!

Corrupt extortionist rip off turncoat politics
Guest

Thanks Estelle ,rex boned,and the rest of the rip off brigade.youll get your carma

Lostcoast
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Lostcoast
5 years ago

Those fuckers not even making sure all the permit farms get their permit … I will be happy when your karma comes

Overthistown
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Overthistown
5 years ago

Yah thanks a lot Estelle and all the rip-off thanks for holding up everyone’s permits way to go!!!!

Pot Prophet
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Pot Prophet
5 years ago

No permits=no plants= no profits
Have permits=have plants=have profits

Yellow
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Yellow
5 years ago

Very nice looking scene with super nice Conley greenhouses with curtain system it’s to bad they were not a permitted grow unfortunately they would not of been able to get around using a generator for power maybe a 2.5 million dollar industrial solar system setup would have solved there whole generator problem and they did not show any pictures of the trash near or in the stream witch is hard to believe they didn’t take it to the dumps they most of had about 20 people working full time. For as much money as they spent on the super nice greenhouse’s they could have got a well drilled so they did not have to devert water . Well I guess the Planning and Building Dept. is going to make them take them all down now.💸💸💸💸💸bye , bye 👋 O.G. Grow Gorilla 🦍 🙊🙉🙈 Big Boss Kowala Ballaa 🐨 Cannabis farmers in shining armor 👨‍🌾👩🏼‍🌾 agreegious or prestigious this certainly will all displease us the Cannabis is the only thing that freed us the big corporations need us so they can spoon feed us and miss lead us .

ElDub
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ElDub
5 years ago
Reply to  Yellow

Those indica gals in the Conley’s look to be almost ready… Too bad. Looks like a nice operation.

Más Puto
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Más Puto
5 years ago

So where’s the talk of the scary cartels?
All of the sudden silence on that subject, guess it was a plantion owner who got busted!

Lostcoast
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Lostcoast
5 years ago
Reply to  Más Puto

Not cartel gosh people will just speculate on anything and feed on negative !

Overthistown
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Overthistown
5 years ago
Reply to  Más Puto

A local you mean

Liz
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Liz
5 years ago

LOL “approximately 57 pounds of pre-rolled cannabis joints”! Pounds of them!

I left my tolling motor in El Segundo
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I left my tolling motor in El Segundo
5 years ago
Reply to  Liz

10 pounds of vape pens ready to pollute the environment.

Big Bang
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5 years ago

Every plant has a use. [edit]

Ligma Scrote
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Ligma Scrote
5 years ago
Reply to  Big Bang

Growers have kept this county afloat for the last 20+ years. [Edit] Why don’t you focus on yourself instead of worrying about what other people are doing.

Omg
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Omg
5 years ago
Reply to  Big Bang

Wow ……i will keep a lookout for you

Protective parent.
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Protective parent.
5 years ago
Reply to  Big Bang

Thats fucked up just because someone has a big truck or as you like to call them (grow dozers) your going to poison them?? First of all some people just like big trucks. Its not fhere fault you cant afford one your self… Second; what if they are complyant, permitted tax paying cultivators? So now you’re poisoning honest people… And third and most importantly of all; what if one of his children is deathly allergic to poison oak and now you’ve intentionally made an innocent child sick???

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SparkleMahn
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5 years ago
Reply to  Big Bang

OH YEAH!

Unapologetic!
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Unapologetic!
5 years ago
Reply to  Big Bang

That’s actually really stupid for your own enjoyment. Some people are allergic to poison oak. Whether you like, loathe or think they deserve it. It’s just simply wrong and against the law. You can throw water on someone but if it’s a beer, it’s assault. What if they got it bad in their lungs after scratching their nose? What if they died? Would you stand by your bs in court? The fact u think you can do that to someone, wow. My suggestion, find a new hobby, one that won’t get you in trouble for being stupid.

miss purty
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miss purty
5 years ago
Reply to  Unapologetic!

I’m sorry, they could go around & cough on door handles too giving folks God knows what…
“Everything we need to know, we learned in kindergarten” like how to wash your hands with hot water & soap REGULARLY cuz you never know who’s got cooties! Just sayin’

Wow!
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Wow!
5 years ago
Reply to  miss purty

Actually if someone filmed you doing that, you can still be in trouble. It’s transferring your bodily fluids onto someone or possessions they plan to in touch . The condensation from your breathe is not water. And when their child dies from your transfer of flu, are you still OK with it? It’s just bs thought process on your part. My suggestion, DON’T THINK PUTTING ANYTHING ON SOMEONE ELSE IS OK. My suggestion, read up on the cult that got in trouble in OR in1984. Your thought process is not fr from these people. Do yourself a favor & Seek help.

Liz
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Liz
5 years ago
Reply to  Unapologetic!

A friend who was not affected by poison oak was the one to burn it. He inhaled some smoke and broke out in poison on every inch (yes, all of him) of his body. He was hospitlized for days.

funnylucky
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funnylucky
5 years ago
Reply to  Big Bang

Please…take a leak when your done.

Emily
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Emily
5 years ago
Reply to  Big Bang

That reminds of a girl in Redway who caught her boyfriend on top of another girl, and rubbed his underwear in poison oak.

DELLIB
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DELLIB
5 years ago
Reply to  Big Bang

OMG let me mill that old growth poison oak into thin strips! I’ll turn you out thin boards!!

Life is Good
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Life is Good
5 years ago

Let me get this straight. Apply for a permit and start paying fees so every department in the county gets their cut. Maybe grease a few palms to speed things up. Bust immunity. Now legally grow your weed and sell on the black market because there’s no track and trace. Sounds great to me. No brainer.

Lostcoast
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Lostcoast
5 years ago
Reply to  Life is Good

And when this process you have mentioned was followed they still did that !!!!!

adam
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adam
5 years ago

but thats just for his personal use!

Overthistown
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Overthistown
5 years ago
Reply to  adam

Could be!

WC 666
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WC 666
5 years ago

Only 21,053 plants and 69 lbs of vape. It was obviously just a personal use operation. I could use that 2,700 gals of diesel tho. Lol.

Go big
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Go big
5 years ago

My man going for gold

Food for thought
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Food for thought
5 years ago

They found all that and not one dollar? Bet that cheesed em. Lol

Sleepy Alligator
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Sleepy Alligator
5 years ago

I wonder if it’s the pre-rolls or the cartridges or both that they use that huge pile of 5 year old looking crap to make. Pre-rolls = mystery rolls. Well organized looking scene though. Unfortunate the county sent their thieves over to rob them. We should be reading about the first law suit against the county anyday now right? And many more to follow right?

oh Canadadada
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oh Canadadada
5 years ago

That does look like some dried out nasty old ass schwag. The kind of crap you turn into mystery oil or roll it up before anyone sees what garbo it is. What fool buys rolled joints.

I have seen nothing concerning any lawsuits against the county. Why hasn’t a young, aspiring, aclu type, half-broke attorney stepped up and filed some suits if these actions are so wrong? Won’t these fine simply be added to the property’s tax bill?

Guest
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5 years ago
Reply to  oh Canadadada

Can’t file before someone is actually required to pay. Until then it is all theoretical. Now the only thing that could be done is to file about the lost plants. And good luck with spending a bundle for lawyers on that if you’re illegal. I love the little delusion that the ACLU is going act as a personal lawyer over the right to grow pot. They could as they have become very silly but it still would be a hard thing for them to justify challenging well established environmental laws.

I suppose they could file a lawsuit to throw out unreasonably burdensome regulation but even theybshouod see there is a big problem that the process is supposed to address. Somehow I can think there’s a civil right to grow unregulated pot.

Most commenters are all stirred up by the mention of 5 figure fines per charge. They totally (choose to?) over look the “up to” part. There will a lot of negotiation, court fights, appeals because of course “up to” doesn’t mean “always.” In fact few will be fined the max.

Lostcoast
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Lostcoast
5 years ago

That’s right!!!!!

Faro
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Faro
5 years ago

As of July 1st you must have a license (interim or permanent) from the state of California to cultivate. A county license supplied by the planning department doesn’t do you any good if you don’t have a state license.

The sheriffs department and the planning department are two seperate entities. The planning department can legally give you a permit and the sheriffs can legally raid you if you don’t have a state license.

From the looks of things this person had a mostly up to code operation and had probably filed paper work with the county. But having a case of oil just sitting on the floor is a violation. It needs to be in a plastic tote in a locked shed. it seems like a lot of people attempting to go legit (or kind of attempting) are getting raided these days.

Signing up and then not following through might not be the best strategy.

Ann D.
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Ann D.
5 years ago
Reply to  Faro

Agreed on much of what you said. It took me the better portion of an afternoon and an evening to read through and really comprehend every line in the new(est) version of the regulations when Kym posted a link a month or so back. I wonder how many others have even taken the time. I think a lot of people would be surprised to know that they need to have that stuff under lock and key with a log book and record of access.

Mogtx
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5 years ago

Its probably one of marci kitchens grows .I wonder how long that set up has been running .that’s the biggest bust I have ever seen .

DELLIB
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DELLIB
5 years ago
Reply to  Mogtx

Stop reading the news Mark, you are mixing the headlines, bro, sorry. Go fire up a mopar you will get back to it

Caramel Tahoe
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Caramel Tahoe
5 years ago

Wonderful photos!

I am deeply impressed by the scale, the expense, and the extent of these operations. I would almost have to call them industrial!

Somebody, somewhere, is out a metric buttload of capital!

They probably have many other gigantic grows, though…

I hope that, in ten years, all the dope is grown on giant farms, in gigantic greenhouses, by companies that follow current environmental, labor, and tax law, under the proper permits, and in a manner that is safe for everyone involved.

What was all the diesel for? Generators? And where is the money? And the cowboy who owns this place?

Somebody knows. Let’s hear about it!

Chatty Cathy
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Chatty Cathy
5 years ago
Reply to  Caramel Tahoe

Monsanto is said to run some great industrial Ag operations,

fizz
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fizz
5 years ago

should be a cute meeting thursday evening at the Mateel, just another step on the road to cannibus corporatization, wonder how many grows which dwarf this grow are happening in the valley right now. Fogetta about lettuce folks.

Corrupt extortionist rip off turncoat politics
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Starting to look like Humboldt’s fucked,were all at the mercy of an elected by ourselves dirty rip off gang.paying them to finish us off.what a nasty outcome to a beautiful place we call home

Corrupt extortionist rip off turncoat politics
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Hope you all realize there starting with the biggs and gonna work down the latter.better save that change

Ullr rover
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Ullr rover
5 years ago

They really need to clean their gutters.

Old timer
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Old timer
5 years ago

Not the biggest grow I’ve seen but Definitely the cleanest! Sorry for all the people that lost their jobs today.

Things are getting hard out there for growers, and soon it will be getting hard out there for local businesses such as clothing stores, toy stores, flower shops, restaurants, coffee shops and salons.

You think all these busts happening would drive the black market prices up….

Canyon oak
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Canyon oak
5 years ago

Looks like a “resilient” grow using “best practices” techniques. Maybe we can have a “conversation” or a “dialogue” about sequestering carbon Ass Prints, or we could discuss the impending “Global Boring” settling over much of the worlds unconsensual diversity.
Nice to see medicine grown by such the exacting standards of science and technology? Looks like they hire the best contractors in the area?
Wish I had that much money or property.
who’s got the name on the parcel owners?

rudolph's mom
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rudolph's mom
5 years ago
Reply to  Canyon oak

Huh? Stringing a bunch of words together does not coherence make.

Thatsmybike
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Thatsmybike
5 years ago

Wow that is a beautiful op, not like all the eyesore tweaker ops you have to pass by to get there. That is a lot of cash that won’t be coming into my business or yours this year, thanks Dumboldt County, keep up the good work

gunther
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gunther
5 years ago
Reply to  Thatsmybike

If you can’t make it without dirty money, maybe you’re in the wrong line of work.

Chatty Cathy
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Chatty Cathy
5 years ago
Reply to  gunther

I take it you have never done any side work under the table right?

warrens buffet
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warrens buffet
5 years ago
Reply to  Chatty Cathy

every one makes an extra mil or two under the table.

Sam Bennett
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Sam Bennett
5 years ago
Reply to  warrens buffet

You wanna talk dirty money? Pull those federal reserve notes outta your pocket….that’s about as dirty and blood soaked as they come.

Central HumCo
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5 years ago

You would think the people would get tired of bowing and scraping before a pedestal of paper terrorist’s nonsense.

God is quite clear about walking in the ordinance of the heathen and renounces those who do.
Leviticus 18: 3-4.

Counties do not make law. That’s the job of the Legislative branch.

If you do not know how to assert your rights, you have none.

Vern W
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Vern W
5 years ago

Looks like a Big Tommy operations being so well financed…..

Nimrod
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Nimrod
5 years ago

What a joke so many horrible grows that our ruining the land and they waste their time here. Looks clean

Ben
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Ben
5 years ago

Been running for years.. You can see it from Mail Ridge..

For Real
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For Real
5 years ago

Bummer, it looks very clean

Get even
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Get even
5 years ago

I know for a fact the guy who did the tree work out there and at his home in eureka said he was going to report this place because he didn’t get paid he I think he owns some fake ass lawn care in fortuna or maybe[edit]

Dude
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Dude
5 years ago
Reply to  Get even

[Edit] You think with an op like that they wouldn’t pay a tree worker? House in eureka? You must ARE confused.

Overthistown
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Overthistown
5 years ago
Reply to  Get even

Wow that’s knarly !whoa hard to believe he didn’t get paid but that’s knarly to say

Not laying down
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Not laying down
5 years ago

No spill container ?? What is that spill container around th tank ? A fence ?
Why take a pic of spill container & say it doesn’t exist ?
Sounds like trump or rudy to me !

Seb
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Seb
5 years ago

That’s a diesel tank. They didn’t have spill containment around their water storage, hence the viloation.

Lostcoast
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Lostcoast
5 years ago
Reply to  Seb

Can’t you see the containment in the picture