Local officials on central Vancouver Island in Canada say at least 100 valuable trees have been illegally chopped down by poachers since January.
A local to the area, Larry Pynn, says the current two hundred Canadian dollar fine for removing the wood is no deterrence, considering the raw wood of each tree is worth close to a thousand Canadian dollars.
Poachers use a number of tricks to hide their work including placing moss over fresh stumps and covering tracks of their vehicles into the forest.