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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This Missouri couple move to Maine (summer home) and start messing around with the trees and property of a very established Maine family. As in LL Bean.
Townies vs arriviste interlopers.
She put it at the bottom of two oak trees she ‘believed to be dying’: they were not on her land,
Property lines exist for a reason.
If they had hired a surveyor to mark their boundaries, it would have cost a lot less than what they owe now.
did you notice 210k were “fines” the person who actually was received the damage only got $4500
It’s too bad they couldn’t catch them in the act and let their guns do the talking.
The trees were blocking her view, guaranteed.
I read out the headline and my brother guessed what this was without even reading the story.
Spraying to kill trees to improve their view.
I’ve seen this in Vancouver, Ottawa and in the Victoria area. And it is always entitled rich douches doing this stuff.
“ The trees were blocking her view, guaranteed.”
100%
This is not the way we do things up here.
tebuthiuron kills every kind of plant, big or small, migrates in the soil because it’s water soluble and has a half life in the soil of ONE YEAR!
this stuff is the latter day equivalent of salting the earth ...
definitely bad juju ...
Don’t mess around with other people’s property. It ain’t fittin’.
My second home neighbors want me to cut down my trees that are blocking their view. Hasn’t happen yet going on 8 years.
Is it your property? Some states let you kill someone stealing your car.
From what I know of Maine, I would agree.
That is douchebaggery.
“did you notice 210k were “fines” the person who actually was received the damage only got $4500”
So the local government of Camden, Maine made out on this deal.
BINGO!!!
My first thought too.
Ay yup.
Did she go to the University of Alabama? Bama fans have been known to kill trees.
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