Most homeowners assume that once they own a piece of land, everything rooted in it is theirs to do with as they please. That ...

Residents have said they feel "extremely angry" after a council voted unanimously to protect a controversial oak tree. Winchester City Council received an intention to fell the more than 40-year-old ...

Sidestepping a thorny, long-running controversy, California officials have proposed a new Western Joshua Tree Conservation Act, legislation that could streamline permitting for new housing, renewable ...

You own your house. You mow your lawn. You paint the fence whatever color you like. So naturally, you assume that massive oak tree casting shade over your driveway is yours to trim as you please, ...

It makes it an offence to cut down and wilfully damage or destroy the trees without permission.

A Wilmington construction site has cleared most trees, leaving only small, fenced-off "tree protection areas." Wilmington's Land Development Code requires these protected zones to prevent disturbance ...

ATLANTA — "The City in the Forest" is looking to better preserve it with a new tree protection ordinance. The city currently follows an ordinance written in 2001. Tree advocate deLille Anthony is ...