The trees serve as a reminder that even if we own whatever home or land we reside on, we are merely borrowers, for the land, the trees, and the house itself were and will likely be there for far longer than we ever were, transcending our ownership of the land.
We grow attached to them in this sense, as they transform our property and our homes into our sanctuaries.
Trees hold not only immense value to us on a spiritual and emotional level, but considerable monetary and legal value too. And that’s before you get into what trees are or aren’t protected for reasons of ecological endangerment and historical significance.
For all of these reasons, that’s why it becomes kind of “a big deal” when your neighbor decides to help themselves to overtrimming or felling a tree on your property. While in most places you can trim a tree’s branches up to the boundary line, there are also limitations when doing so would endanger the health and well-being of the tree.
This Portland, Oregon homeowner came into conflict with the developer that owned the property next door and the local electric organization, which is attempting to remove several trees on and near the homeowner’s property in order to install some overhead powerlines. Whereas the plan had been initially to install the lines underground, the developer had suddenly swapped back to wanting to do overhead powerlines, which led the homeowner to suspect that this was being done as a cost-cutting initiative.
Determined to save the trees, they sought to contact the city and submit applications to designate the trees as heritage trees in order to protect them, promising to circle back with updates in a couple of weeks when they had updates.
Author: Kayitsi.com
