just horrible....

Not news to anyone that even occasionally drops into the k+b : I love college football. Not just University of Georgia football, either, everything...Script Ohio, We are the boys from old Florida, THE game, The Grove, Traveler, Bevo, Buzz , even a pine tree. Live tigers, Cowbells, Song girls and rocks, Pig hats even touch-down Jesus.
War damn eagle and roll tide roll.....

One of the greatest and most fun of all college football traditions is when the students at Auburn roll the hell out of a little grove of trees there on campus. Toomer's corners! From today's AJC : "The oak trees at Auburn University’s historic Toomer’s Corner were covered in toilet paper as fans celebrated the school’s BSC Championship title.Now those 130-year old trees may be on their deathbed because of an herbicide, known as Spike 80DF, or tebuthiuron, the university said Wednesday.
Spike 80DF commonly is used to kill trees, the university said. This time it was “deliberately applied in lethal amounts to the soil” around the Toomer’s Corner live oaks, according to a statement.“There is little chance to save the trees,” the university said.The buzz about the treasured oak trees started Jan. 27 when someone called The Paul Finebaum Show, a nationally syndicated radio show based in Birmingham, and claimed to have applied the herbicide, the university said.
The university took soil samples the following day and sent them to a laboratory to be tested.The lowest amount detected was .78 parts per million, which horticulture authorities say is a “very lethal dose,” according to the university.The highest amount was 65 times that, the university said.
"We will take every step we can to save the Toomer's oaks, which have been the home of countless celebrations and a symbol of the Auburn spirit for generations of Auburn students, fans, alumni and the community," University President Jay Gogue said in a statement. Saving the trees won’t be easy, the university said. Removing the herbicide means digging trenches and putting down activated charcoal to block the chemical from spreading. The university said it is working with Dow Chemical – which makes the herbicide – as well as horticulturalists.
Gogue, meanwhile, is asking students not to retaliate."It is understandable to feel outrage in reaction to a malicious act of vandalism," Gogue said. "However, we should live up to the example we set in becoming national champions and the beliefs expressed in our Auburn Creed.”


Just why ?
Sick about this, and hoping for the best that all those SEC forestry folk can come together and work some miracle fixing these beautiful old trees. It's all fun and games until somebody loses an.....


We are all Tigers/War Damn Eagles/Plainsmen now.......