“Idiots planted they to try to drain the everglades.”
How about:
“Government idiots planted them to try to drain the Everglades.”
The aerial seeding of the Everglades with Australian Melaleuuca tree seed WAS a gooberment project.
Typical of Gooberment AgencyPersons, there was a monument to that project in the city of Davie, Fl.
Long gone, vanished into the black hole of revisionist history.
They did the same thing with Australian pines in Palm Beach County. Now the taxpayers are paying to have those removed.