LOL!!! Honestly, I really am laughing out loud - GPS tracking chips in trees?? Too bad they can't invent a Lojack-type system with a poison pill. Steal the tree, and upon activation a dose of Roundup is administered to the tree, making it worthless to the thief.
The only thing I've found in Wisconsin is the expenditures on schools and roads. That seems to be the only things they invest in here. Don't get me started on the schools....but the roads - it seems every few years every road is ripped up and repaved. As soon as a pothole appears, >poof< so appear the orange cones and construction workers. Don't get me wrong, roads like billiard tables are great, but it seems that if we could put off repair/replacement for these roads 2-3 more years for each cycle, we'd save a great deal of money without noticeably reducing the quality of the roads.