Bath School disaster
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The Bath School disaster was a series of violent attacks perpetrated by Andrew Kehoe upon the Bath Consolidated School in Bath Township, Michigan, United States, on May 18, 1927. That morning, Kehoe,
Bath Consolidated School before the bombing
Andrew Kehoe, c. 1920
Explosives recovered from under the school
Andrew and Nellie Kehoe's house before the disaster
Girdling
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Girdling, also called ring-barking, is the circumferential removal or injury of the bark of a branch or trunk of a woody plant. Girdling prevents the tree from sending nutrients from its foliage to it
Bath School disaster
…McMullen returned it for this reason. It was discovered later that Kehoe had cut all of his wire fences as part of his preparations to destroy his farm, girdling young shade trees to kill them and cutting his grapevine plants before returning them to their stumps to hide the damage. He gathered lumber and other…
Girdling in Lille, Northern France
Yellowing of alder leaves due to girdling.
Grape vines and their canopies
Holes drilled by red-naped sapsucker in Platanus wrightii - an Arizona sycamore