CLE ELUM, Wash. — Authorities have seized more than 9,500 marijuana plants in what is being touted as the biggest pot bust ever in Kittitas County.

Federal and state investigators joined sheriff’s deputies in the raid early Wednesday in the rugged Teanaway (tee-AN’-uh-way) area about 40 miles northwest of Ellensburg. Nobody was arrested, but 9,514 plants with an estimated value of about $1,000 each were removed.

Undersheriff Clayton Myers says investigators also found fertilizer, gardening tools, more than a half-mile of irrigation pipe, and living quarters made out of lodge poles and pine bows.

Myers says the biggest previous marijuana raid in the county was less than half as big, about 4,000 plants in Coleman Canyon northeast of Ellensburg in 2007.