The Arizona Dept. of Agriculture is investigating after video showed a construction crew cutting down a pair of saguaros with chainsaws at a golf course north of Tucson.
"I was just taken back, I couldn't believe it happened," Parker said."To see them cut down for a basically a three-day golf tournament and those guys after three days are going to pack up their things and be gone, and these saguaros will be In a dumpster somewhere," said resident Michael Smith. "I didn't like that and I hope the people in this community don't put up with it.
"There was no sense talking to the workers, they were trying to avoid me for sure, but it wasn't the workers," said Jerry Parker. "They were doing the job that someone told them to do. So the question is who and why." Our maintenance practices are designed to protect the natural beauty of our desert landscape.
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