California trying to make the world’s tallest tree invisible. Now visitors face jail, fines
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California trying to make the world’s tallest tree invisible. Now visitors face jail, fines

LA Times  

It sounds hard to hide the tallest tree in the world. “People have the right to come and enjoy their parks,” said Leonel Arguello, the park’s chief of natural resources. “Pressing the soil down is going to hurt the tree’s ability to survive,” Nelson said. “That’s just the natural way of things in these open redwood forests,” Arguello said. “So what we want to do through this closure is minimize that impact and hopefully the area can begin to recover on its own.” Further, park officials say Hyperion is not the most impressive tree in the area and doesn’t match up to its hype.

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Trekkers to world’s tallest tree in Northern California forest to face fine & possible jail time; know why
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Trekkers to world’s tallest tree in Northern California forest to face fine & possible jail time; know why

India TV News  

Tree enthusiasts who make the trek to the world’s tallest tree deep in a Northern California forest will face a fine and possible jail time after park officials declared the remote area off-limits because of damage done by trampling visitors to the tree and surrounding forest, a park official said Monday. But that hasn’t stopped scores of visitors from hiking …

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