Or, alternatively, drives into it with their truck while drunk[1].

1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tree_of_T%C3%A9n%C3%A9r%C3%A9

Ugh. Was camping at a small oasis in the desert in Jordan earlier this year. Someone had chopped down all 6 palm trees recently. Somehow it seems so much more tragic when there isn't another tree in 10s of miles.

Few things get my goat like this, but I'd drop all forms of civility in a heart beat just to see the kind of person who'd do that suffer.

A meth head burned down the oldest tree (3500 YO) in Florida a few years ago.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Senator_(tree)

I was wondering how they managed to hit the only tree for hundreds of miles around. Its isolation made it a target, basically the only landmark around, so of course people would be driving straight at it.

Not sure why this was flagged. Noteworthy trees (tallest, oldest, last remaining, famously beautiful, etc) routinely get chopped down by vandals, apparently purely out of spite.