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60 trees uprooted by vandals, thrown into Mississippi River in St. Paul (kstp.com)
submitted 4 days ago by ZeroCool@slrpnk.net to c/news@lemmy.world
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cross-posted from: https://slrpnk.net/post/15292455

The trees were among 250 planted in mid-October by an army of young arborists, paid by Tree Trust for their efforts.

“We spent more than, I’m pretty sure, more than a week on that road,” explains Malick Jenke, among a half-dozen high school grads taking part in Tree Trust’s ‘Branches’ program.

The group of tree planters includes 25 high school students from St. Paul and the ‘Branches’ participants — most of whom are interested in pursuing a green career.

“One tree will take anywhere from a half hour to 45 minutes to get it completely planted, mulched and watered. In some cases, we have to stake those trees as well,” Zumach says.

She notes the value of the destroyed trees adds up to about $12,000, but the City of St. Paul says with labor and other expenses, the costs of the vandalism totals about $40,000.

A spokesperson says replanting the trees is a priority but noted planting season is pretty much at an end.

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[–] eran_morad@lemmy.world 57 points 4 days ago

worthless cunts.

[–] FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 37 points 4 days ago

America can't have nice things, so I guess it's good that it's going to stop having nice things in that respect.

[–] Thekingoflorda@lemmy.world 19 points 4 days ago (2 children)

For one second I thought they threw the vandals in the river.

[–] Dogiedog64@lemmy.world 27 points 4 days ago

They should.

[–] jagged_circle@feddit.nl 0 points 4 days ago

They didn't?

[–] Catoblepas@lemmy.blahaj.zone 15 points 4 days ago (1 children)

Ripping out 60 trees that weigh 30 lbs each in a night? There’s no way this was just some drunk hooligans or something. This was either over money or politics.

[–] DancingBear@midwest.social 7 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago)

Depending on how they “ripped them out” 30lbs is an extreme underestimate.

That’s a lot of friggin work. I hope they had PPE at least 🤷‍♂️/s

Edit: they said 30 lbs in the article lol must be container trees. For how tall those trees are that’s really small root balls though. But still a friggin lot of work!!!

[–] socsa@piefed.social 16 points 4 days ago

I wonder who they voted for

[–] Curious_Canid@lemmy.ca 15 points 4 days ago

That is one of the saddest things I've heard today.

[–] sem@lemmy.blahaj.zone 10 points 4 days ago

Like what are the logistics here? It's hard to get trees out of the ground.

Someone did this for 60 trees overnight without get bored? Sounds like hard work to me

[–] Trigger2_2000@sh.itjust.works 6 points 4 days ago

WTF is wrong with people nowadays!