All to give motorists an extra second of visibility…
A Crime By The Highway: Poisoning Trees To Make Billboards Easier To See (April 27, 2012)
“Robert J. Barnhart was a crew chief for a billboard company, and a soldier in a war on trees…. It was all about being fast: Hack into the roots or base of the tree, douse the wound with herbicide, and get out of there. The Lamar executive who gave the orders, said Barnhart, called it ‘a hit and run.’”
http://openchannel.msnbc.msn.com/_news/2012/04/26/11402635-a-crime-by-the-highway-poisoning-trees-to-make-billboards-easier-to-see
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