So right away we dug up some of the soil and took some tissue samples, set it off to the laboratory, a week or two later, we got the results back that Treaty Oak had been poisoned. John Giedraitis More Quotes by John Giedraitis More Quotes From John Giedraitis I just assumed it was a parks employee that got a little sloppy, i didn't give it a second thought. John Giedraitis Treaty Oak is Treaty Oak, everybody wrote that thing off... almost 30 years later, that tree is doing better than it was when I first saw it in 1985. John Giedraitis Certainly there are not many trees, not just in Austin or in Texas, but in the world, that own their own land. John Giedraitis John Giedraitis called the experts in, pretty much all of them that were familiar with the way that this compound works on trees said that this is a dead tree, that it will not survive. John Giedraitis