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That was posted right after the BCS win, the same week that Alabama and Georgia got tons of snow. When someone first sent it to me, I thought it was a picture of snow-covered trees--and here I have a doctorate in horticulture. But I got a phone call a couple of weeks ago from a retired hort professor, one of the best ever in the field, and he told me, "Don't feel bad, I thought it was snowy trees too."
The Forestry Department has been selling acorns from the trees for years as a fundraiser but how can you replace history? Some schools, like Arkansas, have a building as their main and much-beloved symbol and a comparison might be--if someone razed Old Main and blacktopped the block it was on. Maybe you know what a comparison at your school would be.
But these trees, these gorgeous trees...and I haven't seen it addressed yet but no doubt that amount of herbicide in the soil (51 times what it would take to kill the trees) would render the soil unplantable. I don't know how far the herbicide has percolated through the soil but it'll probably kill all those gorgeous azaleas nearby.
And all because someone was pissed that Auburn won the Iron Bowl.
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