man cuts down protected trees on preserve to have a better view - genius

[ultrarunner]

Walking the property one Sunday and noticed several of Moms trees cut... some topped others gone.

Started looking around and saw a lot trimming had been done on a neighboring parcel... knocked on the door and the Minister that owns the home said his tree guy got a little to aggressive when told to improve the view...

These trees are protected and if push comes to shove... I have it well documented...

I have to pick my battles and it's nothing we see or would miss...

Guess it was a calculated risk that worked.

 

[Steppenwolfe]

Walking the property one Sunday and noticed several of Moms trees cut... some topped others gone.

Started looking around and saw a lot trimming had been done on a neighboring parcel... knocked on the door and the Minister that owns the home said his tree guy got a little to aggressive when told to improve the view...

These trees are protected and if push comes to shove... I have it well documented...

I have to pick my battles and it's nothing we see or would miss...

Guess it was a calculated risk that worked.

Not calculated, planned. Better to beg for forgiveness, than ask for permission...

 

[ultrarunner]

You know what they say in the good book about forgiveness... then the homeowner is a minister!

 

[dave1949]

So the 100 trees I removed from my property are worth millions??
I guess I should get a bank loan on the remaining 200.

It looks like Kansas is going to get a dozen or so new trees from this $13M grant. :laughing:
Improvement of Riparian Areas and Water Quality Focus of New Project

 

[alchemysa]

We had a guy over here who brought in an excavator and removed hundreds of tons of public sand dune so he would have a better view of the sea from his beach house. He didnt get away with it.

 

[Wagtail]

Reminds me about one of these clowns [with apologies to legitimate clowns] that did this around the Sydney, NSW area for 'harbour views'...

He was fined heavily plus the local council then placed two, stacked, shipping containers where the damage had been done so that his view would still be spoilt until the re-planted trees had reached maturity. That ugliness will last years and be a constant reminder of his vandalism.

 

[TomSeller]

Many times when people cut down trees to enhance their view, limbing the trees up would have done almost as good, kept them from getting fined and kept the bank erosion issues away. It depends on the species.

It would be fitting when someone trespasses on adjacent property to cut trees on a slope to have their house slide down the hill after a good rain and erosion.

 

[davesl708]

It looks like Kansas is going to get a dozen or so new trees from this $13M grant. :laughing:
Improvement of Riparian Areas and Water Quality Focus of New Project

It is amazing. Trees do not stabilize river banks. Just look at all the tree roots sticking out along the river bank. Put a tree on a dam and see how fast the state will make you remove it if it is a class 3 dam.

 

[dave1949]

It is amazing. Trees do not stabilize river banks. Just look at all the tree roots sticking out along the river bank. Put a tree on a dam and see how fast the state will make you remove it if it is a class 3 dam.

River hydrology and reparation is a pretty tricky science I think. They do a bit of that around here to restore trout streams that were obliterated back in the logging spring river run days. The loggers would build low dams to create a pond, then slide the winter's log cuttings down the bank into the pond. When it was good and full during spring snow melt and rain they would blow the dam with dynamite and let it rip.

Meandering waterways and oxbows will form naturally trees or not. People's inclinations with property lines, fields, roads and homes is to attempt to keep a river where it is and that is not always what the river or stream wants to do.

I think the only real solution for some waterways would be to set aside a very wide riparian band and let the water do what it will within that band. Generally, no one is willing to give up that much space.

They are fighting erosion in a section of the local Sandy River. It is close to a road that is not easy to abandon due to houses on it. The road was closed to general traffic for most of a year, they were afraid it would collapse into the river. The river is a spawning ground for threatened/about gone wild salmon so of course every agency gets involved and it can only be worked on for a couple months per year because stirring up sediment smothers the eggs and fry.

So far, they have tried rip rap, stuffing logs into the bank with excavators and planting shrubs on the bank above the river. The first planting of junipers all died so they just replanted with alder. If keeping score, I'd say the river is winning. :laughing:

 

[oosik]

Right across the county road from my property is Turnbull NWR(National Wildlife Refuge). Its really a gross mistake made in the '30's by the Soil Conservation Core - an effort to create farm land that actually created a massive mosquito breeding habitat.

Anyhow - for reasons unknown - a neighboring land owner harvested trees for firewood in the Refuge about ten years ago. As far as I know, he is still incarcerated in some gulag in Northern Siberia.