In 2013, an alarming number of National Park redwood trees were shorn of their knobby protrusions, called burls. The trees were disfigured by thieves aiming to sell distinctive burl wood to luxury fur
Big Sur is not a town, it’s a region and the only way in or out is on Highway 1, a curvy, dangerous road with thousand foot drops to the ocean. Four million tourists travel this road every year, as ma
