LIVE BURLS
The title for this series of photographs was taken from a neon sign in the Trees of Mystery gift shop in Klamath, California. In recent years, an alarming number of old-growth trees residing in Redwood National and State Parks have been shorn of the gnarled protrusions that grow on their trunks, called burls. Essential to the tree’s reproduction process, these burls are illegally cut by poachers who seek to sell the distinctive wood on the black market for use in fine woodworking and luxury car paneling. 2016
Lady Bird
Semper Virens
Coastal Drive, Southwest View
Merlo
Redwood Highway
Big Lagoon
Crescent City
Lysichiton Americanus
Skunk Cabbage
Bald Hill