One or more vandals are cutting chunks of sought-after wood from maple trees in Corvallis’ Willamette Park. Officials say the illegal poaching will likely kill the trees. The burls, rounded masses of ...

Thieves seeking valuable maple burls have hit at least half a dozen trees in a Corvallis park, leaving officials searching for answers and police searching for suspects. Since December, the thieves ...

If you hear chainsaw noise in a Corvallis park, it's not necessarily city maintenance workers. One or more vandals are attacking trees at Corvallis’ Willamette Park and Natural Area for their burls, ...

Park volunteers and city staff are on alert after someone sawed valuable pieces off a tree in an Albany park. Sometime in the past week or so, a tree on the Eagle Trail in Takena Landing Park was ...

On a mid-July morning in Corvallis’ Willamette Park, Callie Gunderson’s two-year-old son climbed a maple tree. Gunderson said playing in the park is the best way to encourage him to be adventurous.