Perhaps these vandals are actually golfers who found that the placement of the trees they cut down obstructive to their play. Anyone who plays has to remember a hole or two at least where a tree was growing directly in line with a shot to the green necessitating aiming left or right, sometimes at water or sand traps or worse. Golf course architects frequently put trees in strategic places to mind-f*ck players.
There’s a course my group plays regularly just outside of York, PA, and for years the 11th hole, a shortish par 4, had a huge deciduous tree at the right edge of the fairway that necessitated aiming at the left edge of the fairway and there was a red-stake hazard with meandering creek just off the left side. Slice it right and you were on a hillside and the tree blocked any shot to the green. Well, two years ago we were playing this course for the first time in the spring and coming to the 11th tee, lo and behold there was just a six foot stump of a trunk where the tree used to be. Getting up close, you could see that the remaining trunk was scorched like someone dosed that sucker with fuel and flicked the Zippo. Much nicer hole now.
You can't be serious. If so, they should be barred from entry in perpetuity.
Have no grown-ups ever heard of using words and speaking to the management?