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View to a Kill: Seattle Searching for Tree Killer

Seattle is facing a bizarre series of attacks on their trees. Someone has been drilling holes into mature trees and injecting them with a herbicide along the picturesque Burke Gilman trial. It is not a unique crime — often committed by people who want a better view from their homes.

The culprit has already cost the city over seventy-thousand dollars and killed three large silver poplar trees and four 70 foot Douglas firs are dead. Two other trees are starting to turn brown.

Police with occasionally be faced with such crimes, here.

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