Posted on 11/28/2023 6:32:00 PM PST by dennisw
Arthur Bond III and Amelia Bond, of St Louis, Missouri, have been fined for the for the use of the herbicide tebuthiuron, not widely known in Maine Amelia Bond told Maine state investigators that in August 2021 she purchased in Missouri a product with the name Alligare, for their Maine holiday home She put it at the bottom of two oak trees she 'believed to be dying': they were not on her land, and the owner of the neighboring property sued
A high-profile Missouri couple has been hit with $215,000 in fines and damages after putting herbicide on two oak trees on land owned by their Maine neighbor, the widow of L.L. Bean's former president.
Arthur Bond III, nephew of the former governor of Missouri and US Senator, Kit Bond, and his wife Amelia, president and CEO of the St Louis Community Foundation, spent their summers at their $3.5 million vacation home above Laite Beach in Camden, Maine.
Amelia Bond told Maine state investigators that she purchased in Missouri a four-pound bag of a chemical called Alligare, which in August 2021 she put on two oak trees she thought were dying.
The oak trees were on the property below hers, belonging to her neighbor.
By the following summer, the decline of the oak trees was noticed by Lisa Gorman - whose husband Leon Gorman became president of L.L. Bean in 1967 following the death of his grandfather, Leon Leonwood Bean.
Leon Leonwood Bean founded the Freeport, Maine-based company in 1912.
Lisa Gorman asked the landscapers Bartlett Tree Experts to look at the trees, and they took soil samples.
Their tests showed that the two oaks had been treated with herbicide, which had spread to other trees including maple, blueberry and dogwood.
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Leon Gorman and Lisa Gorman
My family knew the Gormans when I was growing up in the 1970s in Yarmouth Maine. He was a member of the Troop Committee of my boy scout troop and we got new tents and other equipment from LL Beans on a regular basis.
In his 30 years at the helm, Leon grew L.L.Bean from a struggling $4.75 million catalog company to an over-one-billion-dollar multichannel leader in the outdoor industry.
I believe he lived in the same house on Portland Street in Yarmouth that he lived in the 1970s until his death in 2015*. I did not know him in his later life. He was quite liberal and pushed Beans to support several liberal causes while his cousin Linda Bean has used her wealth to push conservative causes including a congressional run. She runs a restaurant directly across the street from the flagship store called the Maine Kitchen & Topside Tavern.
* The Camden house is probably a summer place.
Use Copper Sulfate — available on Amazon and at many hardware stores — to kill anything, at root level.
She didn’t think they were dying. They were in her way of an open view to the water. She did it on purpose and thought she’s get away with it.
I don’t think it was about property lines. They were in her way and she tried to be sneaky.
So small trees.
Just because you can does not mean that you SHOULD.
Maine has great blueberries, but I didn’t know they even have blueberry trees!
Stupid reporter has never been outside Manhattan probably. Blueberries grow on bushes not trees.
Dumbass best describes any neighbor who monkeys with my property...
Hope that you are being smart and repeatedly soothing them by telling them that you are "still waiting for City Hall to issue a variance," "haven't gotten back the findings of the Environmental Impact Report yet," "still waiting for a new typewriter ribbon so that you can write a request to the Town Council," or some-such nonsense!
No need to raise their hackles!
Regards,
Correct. Though height, alone, is not sufficient to distinguish trees from, say, herbaceous plants.
But blueberries are, in fact, prostrate shrubs, and are, indeed, distinguished from trees by their multiple stems and shorter height.
Regards,
Subject properties at 1 and 3 Metcalf Rd, Camden, Maine.
What kind of terrible person would actually go to all that trouble to actually kill someone else’s trees?
Exactly what I thought.
“When Karens Fight” is the alternate title here.
So, for $215,000 she got the job done. Probably increased the property value by $1M, due to the nice view.
Costly up front, but they’ll win in the end.
Bingo!! Absolutely the real reason. The perpetrators thought they would never be caught.
I had some black walnut trees, a valuable, beautiful wood, that Rice County, KS tore out because they were within their 30 foot right-of-way along a gravel road. No notification, nothing. The county even took the trees. I measured, those trees were forty feet from the center of the road. I don’t think I’ve ever been as angry in my life. Bastards killed my old growth walnut trees. What are my squirrels going to eat?
That was my first thought.
Nobody would of thought of doing something like this in the West Virginia of years ago. Mess with your neighbors, get your place burned down.
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