Been living on Mars the past 30 years, have we?
Here in California, we have "Heritage Trees." They don't belong to the property owner. They are somehow communal or state property and woe to you if you so much as stare cross-eyed at such a hallowed object! The old Eucalyptus trees in our company parking lot are being pruned right now and a number of them bear a special yellow banner "HERITAGE TREE". It's laughable.
It is not just laughable.
It is condemnable.