BUHL, Idaho -- Law enforcement officers from three Idaho counties have seized 381 marijuana plants worth an estimated $250,000 from three grow operations in the Buhl area.
Gooding County Sheriff Shaun Gough says deputies in an Idaho Army National Guard helicopter spotted the pot, including 261 plants on an Idaho Department of Fish and Game wildlife management area. Another 20 plants were found on Idaho Power Co. land.
Officials from Lincoln and Twin Falls counties helped pull the plants and haul them out on all-terrain vehicles. Some of the plants were 6 feet tall.
Gough says it's likely the marijuana will be destroyed unless the growers left clues to their identities in the trash they left behind at the grow sites.
The U.S. Drug Enforcement Agency funds the annual project, including the use of the helicopter.
