those oaks. it is the cultural importance of those trees to auburn university and to alabama as a state that made so surreal this phone call to a local radio show last year. listen. the weekend after the iron bowl, i went to auburn, alabama because i live 30 miles away and poisoned the two toomer s tree, put spike 80 df in them. it did they die? they definitely will die. a man calling in saying he killed the toomer oaks with a tree poison, he did do it or somebody did it. ever since they learned of the poisoning, they are trying to save their beloved trees. we reported on their efforts, they removed the soil from around the roots and added activated liquid charcoal and coated the leaves in an effort