Some newly-planted trees were reportedly dug up from an area park and stolen, and the ones who planted them are asking for the public’s help. Kristin Ruggiero is the 4-H Resource Educator with Cornell Cooperative Extension of Rockland County. Ruggiero says two Eastern redbud trees were planted last month in Kakiat Park in Montebello, but about nine days later, they were gone…
Ben Heilbronn is a member of the tree planting group in the Youth for Climate Action program, and called the theft disheartening…
Rockland Sheriff Lou Falco says no one’s come forward yet with any information…
If you have information, contact the Rockland County Division of Environmental Resources at 845-364-2670.