LOS ANGELES — It sounds hard to hide the tallest tree in the world. But that’s exactly what officials at California’s Redwood National Park have been trying to do since 2006.
Now, the 380-foot tall redwood tree is officially off-limits. In a statement last week, the park wrote that any visitors caught near it could face six months in jail and a $5,000 fine.
For 16 years, the park refused to publish the location of the tree in order to protect it. Officials feared that too many visitors to the site could damage it and the delicate ecology of its surrounding slopes.
