We used to have trees lining our driveway; definitely on our property. We live in a critical environmental zone and tree removal has to be approved, and often it's denied, unless the tree is dead. When we got a new neighbor, he constantly whined about trees in the yard and how the "rich people in the neighborhood" all had the trees removed from their yards, ad nauseum. Someone please tell me why people buy a house on a wooded lot in a wooded neighborhood in a critical area, where you have to sign a paper saying you KNOW you're in a critical area and then want to cut down the trees and make it look like some scorched earth tract house suburb? Within about a 3 year period, slowly, all of the trees lining our driveway died. None of them were big trees, all about 7 - 10 inches in circumference. The neighbor's gone, but we've always wondered if our neighbor had a hand in it.
As far as the trees I'm talking about - it isn't us who wants the trees gone, it is on another property in another state. No one lives on the lot, no one ever will; if and when the wetland ever sells, the trees will come down to gain access to the property, and I have no interest in buying a property that wont perk and can't be built on. They are not native trees, they are trees that were purposely planted to block the view of a man who was having an affair with the planter's wife. Planter/owner has moved out of the country and has been trying to sell the lot for as long as anyone in the neighborhood can remember, even before the tawdry affair thing, exwife and lover have split and gone their separate ways. Nothing will come of it; it was a musing on the deck on a nice evening and intertwined with a conversation that all of our trees died, and did our old neighbor have something to do with it, and if so, how did he do it.
Way to jump to conclusions.