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Dr. Greta Wengert hunkers down with the law enforcement officer assigned to guard her (his face blurred to protect his identity) during a drug bust of a trespass marijuana grow in the mountains of El Dorado, Cali.. California is home to thousands of industrial-scale plantations run by international drug trafficking organizations on public lands. Wengert who is the co-director of the Integral Ecology Research Center, accompanies raids to perform immediate environmental assessments and initiate planning for cleanups. Wengert and her husband Dr. Mourad Gabriel (not pictured) have been at the forefront of discovering the grows impacts as well as developing the protocols for restoration,