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The olive plant, a leftover from long ago when the Bay Area resembled. a desert, is found only in two or three places in the counry.....Investigators from the Sheri.fi's Office came out and verified that the site was not booby-trapped. before conservationists started the cleanup, said Seth Adams, Save Mount Diablo programs manager..... With tighter border controls since the. Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks, drug dealers are finding it easier to grow pot in th.e United States rather than smuggle it in, state and federal authorities say....But they left a significant wound on a fragile mountain area that supports two other rare plants besides the desert olive, which grows an inedible olive..... "These plants are so rare we want to protect the few that are left," Adams said. "This is a biological hot spot because of the diversity of rare plants and animals." The crew removed traps meant to kill pests that might have danlaged the crop. On Mount Diablo, however, the traps could have killed threatened Alameda whipsnakes that like to hide in thickets.....About 75 percent of the marijuana seized during the state's annual Campaign. Against Marijuana Planting this year came from parks and public lands, according to Attorney General Bill Lockyer.....Growers also left a path of environmental destruction in the Point Reyes National. Seashore in Marin County, where 43,000 plants were seized in August and September in nine locations...."These massive plantings are threatening the very mission of our parks: to preserve our natural resources and environment and. provide a safe place for visitors," said John Del]'Osso, the Point Reyes chief of interpretation. To irrigate their crops, growers tapped into local streams, leaving less for federally protected coho salmon and steelhead. Pesticide runoff from the pot farms may have poisoned creeks and soil. Park workers also worry tl-iat terraces carved into steep slopes are ripe for erosion during winter, possibly polluting creeks anal smothering fish spawning areas. The pot farm caretakers were apparently armed, too, because they left behind gun shells. Reach. Denis Cuff at 925-943-8267 or d.cuff c~cctimcs.com. Recent Law Enforcement Actions: These are incidents involving Iaw enforcement D)JA, IRS, Modesto Police Raid. Medical Marijuana Business Written for the web by C. Johnson, Internet News Producer Written for the web by Elizabeth Bishop, Senior Internet News Producer Agents from the Drug Enforcement Administration, the Internal Revenue Service and. the Modesto Police Department raided what they say is one of the biggest medical marijuana dispensaries in Northern California. This morning, officers went to the California Healthcare Collective...to serve seven search warrants.....Between the business and several residences named in the warrants, agents recovered 60 pounds of marijuana, 30 pounds of baked. goods laced with marijuana, two pounds of hashish, three loaded guns, $16,000 in cash., a 2007 Mercedes-Benz and a 2006 Dodge pick-up truck.....In the investigation, a DEA spokesman. said as many as 400 people a day were going into the Collective, Undercover agents were able to use fake identification. and fake physician prescriptions to buy marijuana. They observed individuals coming into the shop, buying marijuana and then selling it in the shop's parking lot. The collective employed security guards making between $120 and $150 an hour. There was an ATM and amoney- counting machine inside the business. 75A-82