In the predawn hours of 22 August 2013, the San Bernardino County Sheriff’s Marijuana Enforcement Team raided an illegal grow deep in the San Bernardino National Forest near Butler Creek, about four miles west of the Big Bear Lake Dam.[1] Working with the U.S. Forest Service, the Drug Enforcement Administration and the state’s Campaign Against Marijuana Planting, investigators seized nearly 13,000 mature cannabis plants.[1] The growers had dammed Butler Creek to pool water that fed irrigation tubes running through the site.[1] Officers found camping gear and piles of trash showing people had been living beside the crop, and said extensive clearing had caused irreversible damage to the forest.[1] No suspects were found at the scene.[1] Sheriff John McMahon called the destruction of natural resources for financial gain unacceptable.[1] The department asked anyone with information to contact its narcotics division or the We-Tip hotline.[1]