My local paper in California had an article on another public resource poaching that I hadn’t hear dof before. Redwood Burl. People are out carving the large burls off of ancient redwoods to sell to wood dealers for art furniture. These burls are part of the reproductive mechanisms of these trees in the event of fire. We may lose some of our incredible redwoods to fire and they won’t be able to come back as their burls have been carved off.
