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  • California Man Guilty of Clearing Trees

    05/24/2003 11:27:50 PM PDT · by yonif · 15 replies · 305+ views
    Yahoo! News ^ | Sat May 24,12:50 PM ET | AP
    VENTURA, Calif. - A man who bulldozed more than 300 oak trees on his property could face more than 3 years in jail after he was convicted on criminal charges. William Kaddis, 58, could also face fines of nearly $100,000. He also was convicted Friday of illegally keeping 62 dogs on his property in the town of Ojai, altering a stream without permission and filing a false police report. The oak trees, protected under a 1992 Ventura County law, were destroyed sometime before October 2001. "This was the largest rape of land in the history of Ventura County, and if...