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 ...
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 ...