I never understood why they don’t just cut down the trees with them in it? Give them one warning, then begin cutting.
Cut the branches off. Then they’d have nowhere to roost.
“I never understood why they don’t just cut down the trees with them in it? Give them one warning, then begin cutting.”
Well, because of the culture we live in, you aren’t allowed to hurt anyone even if they set themselves up for it. There was a case where a bunch of idiots blocked a road for climate change or whatever. But it was dark. They were on the blind side of a hill and a truck ran over and killed (at least one.) The driver suffered at the hands of the legal system even though he obviously didn’t do it on purpose. I vaguely recall he got off, but it was expensive to him. Also, as a law professor told my class. If you run into someone or you shoot them, make darned certain they’re dead. Because an injured person will be favored by the jury, and they’ll own everything you had. That’s just the way it is.
Right! If they want to ride the tree down, let them.
We had such a marked tree at the edge of town. Had a sign for generations. This past winter it fell forward. People were sad. So, plan around the tree and build the damn housing. It isn’t that hard.