[goldstategop]

You need government permission to remove trees from your own property. That's evident regardless of what I think of Bette Midler's politics.

"Show me just what Mohammed brought that was new, and there you will find things only evil and inhuman, such as his command to spread by the sword the faith he preached." - Manuel II Palelologus

[skimask]

In california any Oak tree whose trunk more than four inches in diameter four feet above the ground cannot be cut down and you cannot cut off any branches more than four inches in diameter.