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it's very tough to get laws like this in the U.S. due to the whole don't tread on me attitude vs. the common good:
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/11/29/nyregion/29tree.html?pagewanted=all&_r=0
And the unfortunate thing is the neighbor who moved in clearly as some close connection to the tree removal people, I even saw one cutter visit before. Nobody could move in this area and afford day after day of teams of workers morning to night, after another day of full service and clearly it will be a least another week to cut up all the giant logs, at full service pricing it would probably be a $25,000 job with ease, so many hours, so many men, so many days, so many very tall and healthy tricky trees to take down, nobody but nobody would ever pay that to make this conversion, so we got the one person who connected in some special way to tree removal people to get a tens of thousand of dollar job done, somehow or other, for barely any cost. Man it's a shame the original neighbor hadn't moved six months earlier or later, no other buyer would've ever destroyed it to this point. The literally cut it right up within the last inch of wildlife preserve forest (which is begins behind our property).
I guess that is life, a month here, a foot there, if our properties had been even just 100' shorter in one direction, the biggest of all the trees cut aside from one (the biggest of all) would've been in the wildlife forest preserve. If it had been sold a few months earlier or later it would've gone to someone else who no way would've ever removed more than maybe 3 trees at most. Unfortunately, this time a maybe 1 in 50,000 scenario happened the wrong way. You needed someone who hates woods who moves into a wooded lot and had rare connections of some odd sort that allow a 20k job to be carried out for nearly free. Maybe it was a 1 in a million scenario.
I just need to read up on laws to see if there is a way to insure the one remaining patch outside of the wildlife management forest preserve can be kept safe, there is a half acre of 180 year old forest still in private hands (and not just logged) on the other side of us. Maybe can get a conservation easement or have the double lot converted converted to our lot and buy it out or something. Or maybe I can get the town to make some tree removal ordinance. They are tough to get passed, but if it was limited to properties with trees say 100 or 125 years or older maybe since that covers so little land it would be doable.
http://www.wolfenotes.com/2011/03/turnpike-authority-illegally-clearcuts-30-miles-of-trees-and-lies-about-it-wheres-christie/
(also note NJ Audubon at the end, NJ is so corrupt that the Audubon society in our state has been totally bought out and paid for, they have supported every logging bill or tree removal in NJ for the last few years, they are even for opening up all NJ parklands to targeted logging down of all mature trees in all widlife areas and parks in order to "allow for places for trees to grow" ? so you want to cut down all the 75+ year old trees to make room for trees to grow?? oh of course there is the little tidbit that under the NJ logging bill, which would benefit barely anyone since logging makes up about 0.00000000001% of the economy in the state, NJ Audubon officials would be paid thousand and thousands of dollars for each logging plan they create for each park and preserve, nice)
Researchers at the USDA Center for Urban Forest Research at the University of California–Davis say that a large tree can save homeowners and taxpayers as much as $160 a year. "A shade tree can reduce air-conditioning costs by up to 30 percent," says center director Greg McPherson. In fact, according to the San Francisco Tree Council, urban neighborhoods with mature trees can be up to 11 degrees cooler in summer than neighborhoods without trees.
In winter, trees can serve as windbreaks and reduce heating costs. The U.S. Bureau of Statistics reports that a line of evergreens can reduce cold-season fuel bills by up to 20 percent.
Trees are also important because they can intercept thousands of gallons of storm water a year--preventing flooding, filtering impurities and renewing groundwater. "It's possible for a 40-year-old ash tree in California to intercept more than 4,800 gallons of storm water and remove six pounds of air pollutants a year," says McPherson.
Further research indicates that an acre of mature trees can absorb enough carbon dioxide each year to offset the pollution of a car driven 26,000 miles.
But perhaps most significant to the homeowner is that mature trees increase the property value of a home, sometimes by as much as 10 percent.
It's sound proof that money does grow on trees.
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