WaPo: These D.C. trees were thriving. Then they were poisoned.

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From The Washington Post:

On a lush, 55,000-square-foot undeveloped plot of land in Southeast Washington, two towering white oak trees more than 100 feet tall and more than 100 inches in circumference have stood sentry over the District’s easternmost tip for decades.

Sometime in the past two years, someone knelt down and bored penny-sized holes near the base of the trees, the District says, injecting them with poison.