That's really smurfed up, I hope they catch whoever did this and they get their just desserts
I'd happily use and axe on the perpetrator(s) the same as they did to these historic, beautiful and helpless trees.
What is wrong with these people? I just can't figure out why someone would do something like this.
Statistically, criminals are far more likely to have grown up without mature, employed daddies in the homes. Kids without fathers are less likely to feel significant and worthwhile in childhood, and go they searching for that significance throughout life. In this case, with an axe. But that search manifests in a myriad of ways from purple hair to a car covered with bumper stickers to the snowflake movement. Look at me! I exist! Give me your attention, or I'll chop down your trees!The short term medicine is to keep bad people in cages until the recidivism rate approaches zero. The long term solution is a moral revolution that restores the nuclear family. A person who 1) graduates, 2) gets a job, 3) gets married, and 4) has kids - in that order - is unlikely to produce children in poverty or children who grow up to commit crime. This is not a political issue. It transcends politics.