EUREKA, CA - The second of two California Redwood burl poachers has now been sentenced. Danny Garcia must pay $11,178 in restitution and serve 700 hours of community service for vandalizing the giant ...
GRANTS PASS, Ore. (AP) — The poaching of knobby growths on ancient redwood trees has spread to national forests in Northern California and Oregon. The growths, known as burls, appear at the base of ...
California is home to the tallest trees in the world: coast redwoods. To forest visitors, staring up at the towering canopy of a 300-foot-tall old-growth redwood can feel surreal. “For a lot of people ...
Wildlife biologist Terry Hines stands next to a massive scar where a burl has been cut by poachers from an old growth redwood tree in the Redwood National and State Parks near Klamath, Calif., in May ...
Wildlife biologist Terry Hines stands next to a massive scar where a burl has been cut by poachers from an old growth redwood tree in the Redwood National and State Parks near Klamath, Calif., in May ...
A California man was sentenced on Friday for poaching chunks of a redwood tree in California, officials said. Derek Alwin Hughes, 37, of Orick, is accused of cutting off “burl” from the base of a tree ...
Press release from Redwood National and State Parks: National Park Service and California State Parks Law Enforcement Park Rangers and Investigators working cooperatively have concluded a year-long ...
A suspected redwood tree slasher and burl bandit was arrested after park officials tracked the wood poacher and an accomplice to a Del Norte County shop where they allegedly peddled the purloined ...