Both residents and Virginia Department of Forestry officials agree: Callery pear trees, including the much-loathed Bradford pear variety, aren’t just offensive to the nose — they’re detrimental to the state’s environment. A new state program is what led approximately 300 residents to the department’s headquarters in Charlottesville this past weekend, each having chopped down at […] The post State forestry program purges hundreds of Virginia Callery pear trees appeared first on Virginia Mercury.