BYThe homes of Lisa Gorman, front, and Amelia and Arthur Bond are seen, Tuesday, June 4, 2024, in Camden, Maine. The Bond's, a wealthy politically connected Missouri couple poisoned their neighbor's trees to secure a view of Camden Harbor, outraging residents in the seaside community.
To make matters worse, the herbicide used to poison the trees leached into a neighboring park and the town's only public seaside beach. The state attorney general is now investigating. Amelia Bond, former CEO of the St. Louis Foundation, which oversees charitable funds with more than $500 million in assets, brought the herbicide from Missouri in 2021 and applied it near oak trees on the waterfront property of Lisa Gorman, wife of the late Leon Gorman, L.L. Bean's president and grandson of L.L. himself, according to a pair of consent agreements with the town and the state pesticide board.
The herbicide — Tebuthiuron — was the same one used in 2010 by an angry Alabama football fan to kill the Toomer's Corner oak trees at Auburn University, following a Crimson Tide loss to their archrival. The incident earned jail time for Harvey Updyke, who acknowledged poisoning the trees. Back in Maine, Tom Hedstrom, chair of the Select Board, said his job typically requires finding consensus on how to proceed with delicate political matters. But this time there is no need because residents are united in their anger."Wealth and power don't always go hand in hand with intelligence, education and morals," he said."This was atrocious and gross and any other word you want to use to describe abhorrent behavior.
On a recent afternoon, no one was home at the Bond's residence while people walked their dogs less than 500 feet away on Laite Memorial Beach, where the herbicide that's lethal to aquatic plants has been detected.
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