Wihtout her permission?
Check out California CIvil Code Sections 660 and 3346
and
California Code of Civil Procedure sections 733 and 734,
Heck, here in SF we can't even cut down our own trees.
Yup. no permission, of course he said that he also owned the land and fenced it off. We did pursuade him to move the fence back to the property line but the trees are long gone. He is now currently suing my mother.