Tree destruction devastates family

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This is sick.

On May 4, Ted and Angie Boyle had planted 228 techny arborvitae, white spruce, Norway spruce and hybrid willows to form a windbreak on the north and west sides of their house, 2 1/2 miles south of Peosta on Sundown Road.

Sometime last Saturday night, about 85 percent of the trees were cut down and left lying on the ground.

Kevin Kelly, owner of Kelly Tree Farm, who sold the windbreak, said he had never seen anything like it. "That's so deliberate, it's just way past reason," he said.

I hope whoever did this is caught.