Rangers close NorCal redwood parkway to keep out wood poachers

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Mar 5, 2014

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Rangers close NorCal redwood parkway to keep out wood poachers

Campers beware! If you're planning on driving up to the Prairie Creek Redwoods, you might find yourself staring at a closed road. Park officials have started closing down the Newton Drury Parkway to try to keep out wood poachers

Coastal Redwood trees stand at Muir Woods National Monument on August 20, 2013 in Mill Valley, California. A four-year study by the Save the Redwoods League called "the Redwoods and Climate Change Initiative" found that due to changing environmental conditions, California's coast redwoods and giant sequoias are experiencing an unprecedented growth surge and have produced more wood over the past century than any other time in their lives.

Campers beware! If you're planning on driving up to the Prairie Creek Redwoods, you might find yourself staring at a closed road. Park officials have started closing down the Newton Drury Parkway to try to keep out wood poachers

For more, we're joined by Jeff Denny, a park ranger at Redwood National and State Parks.