Highway Workers Mow 28,000 Seedlings Down

In Perrysburg, Ohio a state worker mowed down 28,000 young oak, ash, birch, maple and sycamore trees (no more than two-feet tall) that had been planted in 2002 and 2003 by volunteers as part of a $33,000 highway beautification project. According to a press release, the only thing left behind are the signs that state "Do not mow or spray."

The city, county and state paid for the seedlings, and volunteers put in more than 700 hours planting them.

According to Joe Rutherford, a spokesman with the Ohio Transportation Department, many of the seedlings were dead, which may have given someone the idea it would be OK to mow them down.