Well, well, well, looks like someone got her 15 minutes of shame.

Another RACIAL COMMENT.

She is a disgrace to the human race!! 3500 years hard labor planting trees. Case closed.

Meth Head WTF? Drugs and Alcohol the root cause of more arrests than any other cause. Humans are too stupid to have drugs and alcohol readily available. A day in prison for every year the tree was old, that will give her perspective and a decent chance to sober up.

So...a 3500 year old tree and a 26 year old meth head meet...the tree dies. I am positive the wrong one lived.

Make her buy and plant 3500 Cypress trees along with 3500 days in jail.

Really?

I don't want to hear any excuse. I DO NOT WANT THIS WOMAN IN JAIL!!!! No no no. no free ride for lazy girl. She is to WORK off her time. HARD LABOR! Since she does not like trees , that will be one of her DAILY JOBS. Rake leaves, plant trees, trim hedges. She will work EVERY WEEKEND till her BILL IS PAID IN FULL. Enough is enough America, get these criminals to work. No more jail house resort, no more free food, no more free medical, no more free dental. The only people who suffer from idiots like this is the TAX PAYERS!!! MAKE HER WORK!!!

America = Land of the wussies.

Just when I thought I've heard it all, this incident hits the news. It is incredible that this tree was witness to some of the ancient indigenous tribes, untold numbers of hurricanes, lightning, the conquistadores and even modern development, only to fall to the utter stupidity of a meth addict. The whole thing is just unbelievable. The people and the Earth have indeed lost a very old friend.

Peace to all

I think they should do the same to this junkie! Pile some twigs under her and drop a match! About 3500 times!

I grew up in the redwood national forest. Every year someone would vandalize one of the trees, most of the time without getting caught. What a lot of people don't realize is many older trees have hollow spots in them that are filled with forest rubbish brought in by animals over the years and are tinder boxes waiting to explode into flames. What this woman did is unforgivable, she destroyed a part of our lands heritage, something that cannot be replaced or forgiven. There is no punishment that could fit this crime, even if she spent the rest of her life performing community service for the forestry department. I, for one, do not want her anywhere near any forest or park for the rest of her life. The fire that was started could have destroyed thousands of acres, hundreds of homes, and countless lives if it had got out of control. She should have to spend the rest of her life in a concrete box, never being allowed to see so much as a blade of grass or flower, ever.

3,500 year old tree, older than some pyramids and civilization, survived countless natural disasters, brought down by one meth-head woman. Another example of human blight on Nature.

Wow! There's alot missing from this article.

A true C U N T

There was a time in this nation when people took such magnificent specimens for granted. When the millions of acres of the tallest redwoods and ancient old growths of sequoias thousands of years old were cut down thoughtlessly for ships masts,sent overseas, turned into homes in America and were used to feed our hungry need for progress. Few took notice of the huge environmental impact and unique loss until it was almost too late and we were left with only tiny surviving parks and single samples of what used to be national treasures like this "Senator".So now, we feel outrage when an individual comes along and destroys in a single act one of our surviving legends, and we should by every account. There needs to be a reckoning and long sentence for the loss of such a national treasure. But before we all feel so self-righteous, lets step back and ask ourselves if we are doing all we can in our own lives, to help preserve what remains of the beauty in America.Or are we harming,in another way what we say we love for its beauty? We can choose to try living as green as possible. With recycling or driving less,conserving energy and resources like water, because what we have left in the world around us still needs protecting. By all of us. While teaching our children by example to be guardians. We may not stop criminal behaviors, but we can be wise stewards one person at a time.

The meth addict, more dangerous than 3,500 years of Gulf Coast hurricanes.

I'm starting to hate this country. I see criminals get away with so much crap. The justice system will be in favor for this dirt bag. Make her work off her debt, if she does not want to or avoids it in any shape or manor then ship her @ss to Iraq! Front lines , mine detector squad. Don't like it? Well then you can walk off the base whenever you wish.

hmmmmm......really? So, where are all the other 3,500 year old trees? I would like to go and see one before another "druggy" burns it down. Please send directions.

That tree was worth more than she will ever be.

hard labor would suit the crime but Obama and holden and the ACLU would never allow it! It was already brought up for other criminals but you know who that it would be unjust! Obama does not want her charged with a fellony because he would loose another progressive socalist democrat voter. Who else but the uninformed, the weak minded, the stupid, the elite billionairs and millionairs and all of the welfare recipents would vote for Obama and the anti american progressive socalist democrat party!! Oh yea the Meth heads!

Really sick of all these moronic, trashy people who do things like rub their nasty druggie behinds on paintings in art galleries or burn down trees trying to light their pipes. I wish the Earth would fissure and swallow them whole.

I got a better way to take this crazy bitch out. Tie her to a tide stick. Let nature punish her, it would be a fitting end.

Dumb kid... Shame it cost the world a 3500 year old tree.

Burn her at the stake for this travesty. Make the stake from the remains of the Senator!

There was a time in this nation when people took such magnificent specimens for granted. When the millions of acres of the tallest redwoods and ancient old growths of sequoias thousands of years old were cut down thoughtlessly for ships masts,sent overseas, turned into homes in America and were used to feed our hungry need for progress. Few took notice of the huge environmental impact and unique loss until it was almost too late and we were left with only tiny surviving parks and single samples of what used to be national treasures like this "Senator".So now, we feel outrage when an individual comes along and destroys in a single act one of our surviving legends, and we should by every account. There needs to be a reckoning and long sentence for the loss of such a national treasure. But before we all feel so self-righteous, lets step back and ask ourselves if we are doing all we can in our own lives, to help preserve what remains of the beauty in America.Or are we harming,in another way what we say we love for its beauty? We can choose to try living as green as possible. With recycling or driving less,conserving energy and resources like water, because what we have left in the world around us still needs protecting. By all of us. While teaching our children by example to be guardians. We may not stop criminal behaviors, but we can be wise stewards one person at a time.

This is tragic but really no different then loggers taking down tress that are several hundred years old... Except that loggers are allowed to by the forestry division...