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    Florida criminal probe, whistleblower suit spotlight tree poisoning to make way for billboards

    By Myron Levin, Lilly Fowler and Stuart Silverstein
    FairWarning
    Robert J. Barnhart was a crew chief for a billboard company, and a soldier in a war on trees. Trees were the enemy if they spoiled the view of a billboard. On days of an attack, Barnhart, 27, would arrive by dawn at Lamar Advertising Co. in Tallahassee, Fla. After removing the magnetic Lamar logo from a company truck, he would set forth with a machete, a hospital mask and a container of what he described as a “pretty gnarly” herbicide.

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