Vandals pried more than 30 plaques off a memorial in Celebration Tree Grove, part of a reforestation project around White Rock Lake.

Plaques were pried from the memorial in Celebration Tree Grove. ((Facebook / Michael Schmitt))

Someone removed 33 plaques from the stone memorial in White Rock Creek Park at East Lawther and Poppy drives, established to honor, remember and celebrate others.

Mike Schmitt, who reported the incident Tuesday in a Facebook post shared by For the Love of the Lake, said it may have been the work of someone trying to sell the plaques for scrap metal.

The cost of each plaque on the memorial goes toward planting and maintaining trees at White Rock Lake. The reforestation effort was founded in 2006 and is overseen by For the Love of the Lake as a way to help cut the loss of trees in the area lost to drought or age.

It will cost $6,500 to replace the plaques, which Schmitt said is "money that could have been spent taking care of the trees."