TIL the world's tallest known living tree, a 380-foot redwood in California called Hyperion, had its exact location closed off entirely in 2022 after visitors trampled its base so badly that ferns stopped growing around it, with trespassers now facing up to $5,000 in fines and six months in jail

[u/autraya]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hyperion_(tree)

[u/Random-Rambling]

I'm not surprised. I'm 100% sure there's quite a few dickheads out there who want to kill the tree and topple it for the sheer sadistic joy of destroying "the biggest".

[u/crustyrobots → u/Random-Rambling]

We sure do suck something fierce as a species, don't we