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  2. Trees and the law: What to know to protect yourself and your ...

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    As a general rule in Florida, a property owner has the right to trim overhanging branches back to his or her property line. Some courts have taken the view this right extends to cutting roots back ...

  3. Thinking about trees in that sense, you may have more rights to cut limbs that are encroaching on your property from a neighbor’s tree — but you don’t do so without assuming legal risk or ...

  4. How to deal with neighbors that encroach on your property - AOL

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    Perhaps the first owner of your house granted your neighbor access to a dock on your property in perpetuity, or the city has retained an easement to access power lines that run across the back ...

  5. Pollarding - Wikipedia

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    Pollarding tends to make trees live longer by maintaining them in a partially juvenile state and by reducing the weight and windage of the top part of the tree. [6] Older pollards often become hollow, so it can be difficult to determine age accurately. Pollards tend to grow slowly, with denser growth-rings in the years immediately after cutting.

  6. Tree sitting - Wikipedia

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    Tree sitting is a strategy that provides a high level of public attention since it is considered to be very dangerous and requires highly skilled police officers to evict the sitters. Tree sitting is often used as a stalling tactic, to prevent the cutting of trees while lawyers fight in the courts to secure the long-term victories. [citation ...

  7. Tree spiking - Wikipedia

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    Tree spiking involves hammering a metal rod, nail or other material into a tree trunk, either inserting it at the base of the trunk where a logger might be expected to cut into the tree, or higher up where it would affect the sawmill later processing the wood. Contact with the spike often damages saw blades, which can result in injuries, or ...

  8. Simple actions can make a big difference to protect homes ...

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    Cutting trees growing near the home's roof line. Patrolling anywhere dry leaves or pine needles can collect, including at the base of the house and in gutters that can collect leaves or pine ...

  9. Vandalism - Wikipedia

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    Examples of vandalism include salting lawns, cutting trees without permission, egg throwing, breaking windows, arson, spraying paint on others' properties, tagging, placing glue into locks, tire slashing, keying (scratching) paint, ransacking a property, flooding a house by clogging a sink and leaving the water running, and pulling up plants ...