{"id":1392458,"date":"2022-03-21T16:29:56","date_gmt":"2022-03-21T20:29:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1392458"},"modified":"2022-03-21T16:30:00","modified_gmt":"2022-03-21T20:30:00","slug":"fact-check-does-this-image-show-a-tree-root-cave-in-big-sur-california","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/fact-check-does-this-image-show-a-tree-root-cave-in-big-sur-california\/","title":{"rendered":"FACT CHECK: Does This Image Show A \u2018Tree Root Cave\u2019 In Big Sur, California?"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">28<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Ffact-check-does-this-image-show-a-tree-root-cave-in-big-sur-california%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1392458&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div><\/div>\n<p>An image <a href=\"https:\/\/archive.md\/v3NRj\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">shared on Facebook<\/a> purportedly shows a \u201ctree root cave\u201d located in Big Sur, California.<\/p>\n<p><strong><span>Verdict: Misleading<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The image shows a cave located in Washington state\u2019s Olympic National Park, not in Big Sur, California.<\/p>\n<p><strong><span>Fact Check:<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The image shared on Facebook shows what appears to be a tree and its roots growing over a depression between two sandy cliffs, creating a cave-like space underneath it. \u201cTree root cave, Big Sur, California,\u201d reads the image\u2019s caption.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.britannica.com\/place\/Big-Sur-region-California\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Big Sur<\/a> is a popular tourist destination made up of a 100-mile-long stretch of coastline located in western California, according to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.britannica.com\/place\/Big-Sur-region-California\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Britannica<\/a>. Many beaches and state parks can be found in the region, according to the Big Sur\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bigsurcalifornia.org\/beaches.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Chamber of Commerce<\/a> website.<\/p>\n<p>The \u201ctree root cave\u201d pictured in the post is not located in Big Sur, however. An internet search revealed the tree is actually located in Washington state, not California. A photo of it can be found on the National Parks Traveler <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nationalparkstraveler.org\/potw\/tree-root-cave-olympic-national-park\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">website<\/a> along with information that states it is located in Washington\u2019s Olympic National Park, more than 900 miles to the north of Big Sur.<\/p>\n<div class=\"panel-pane pane-entity-field pane-node-body\">\n<div class=\"pane-content\">\n<div class=\"field-body\">\n<p>\u201cThe \u2018Tree Root Cave,\u2019 aka \u2018Tree of Life\u2019, is located on Kalaloch Beach, down the steps from the Kalaloch Campground Day Use Area in Olympic National Park, Washington,\u201d reads the website. \u201cThis oddity of nature resulted from a stream undercutting the bluff on which the tree still clings by a few strong roots.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The tree was also the subject of a 2018 video from Seattle-based NBC affiliate KING 5, which can be found on the outlet\u2019s verified <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=10156840701343623\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Facebook page<\/a>. <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/checkyourfact.com\/2020\/01\/31\/fact-check-california-registering-vote-federal-election-integrity-program\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">(RELATED: Viral Image Claims California Is Registering Non-Citizens To Vote And Not Complying With The \u2018Federal Election Integrity Program\u2019)<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Check Your Fact previously <a href=\"https:\/\/checkyourfact.com\/2021\/03\/31\/fact-check-photo-tree-through-bicycle-fallen-wwi-soldier\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">debunked<\/a> a viral image that purportedly showed a tree embedded with a bicycle that was abandoned by a soldier who died after going off to war in 1914.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An image shared on Facebook purportedly shows a \u201ctree root cave\u201d located in Big Sur, California.Verdict: Misleading The image shows a cave located in Washington state\u2019s Olympic National Park, not<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":89,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1392458","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1392458","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/89"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1392458"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1392458\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1392458"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1392458"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1392458"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}