DCist: "Alleged Tree Vandal Damaged More Than 750 Trees In Northwest DC"

See this DCist post on the damaged treebox trees in Bloomingdale and Truxton Circle.

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Alleged Tree Vandal Damaged More Than 750 Trees In Northwest D.C.

Authorities arrested a man last week for vandalizing dozens of trees in the Bloomingdale and Truxton Circle neighborhoods in Northwest, but it looks like the damage he allegedly committed was far worse than it initially appeared.

John Thomas, a spokesperson with the Urban Forestry Administration, tells DCist that he estimates the man damaged 752 trees. "Trees on parks and private property were damaged," he says. Trees all the way from Truxton Circle to New York Avenue were damaged with deep, circular marks carved out of the middle of them. Some trees had more than eight or nine of these damaging marks.

Thomas says the UFA first got an email last Monday afternoon saying that "hundreds" of trees in the sender's neighborhood were damaged, but the person didn't provide an address. Soon after, they received more emails alerting them to tree damage in the Bloomingdale and Truxton Circle areas.

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For now, though, the UFA is closely examining the damaged trees and determining which ones need to be removed. "The damage is significant enough that there's going to be major problems," he says. "It's 752 trees."

You check out a detailed storymap of the damaged trees here.