[Carl in Tampa]

Trees are a renewable resource.

One good forest fire in California destroys more trees than there are in the entire The Villages. It's not the end of the world. More trees grow.

I have been the victim of planting an oak tree and several years later being told by the local government that although it is on my land and I planted it, I do not have the authority to cut it down, even if it threatens my house.

I am personally fed up with unthinking and unreasonable tree hugging.

I am confident that if the Morse's are cutting down oak trees, they had good reason AND they received the proper permission from local government.

Enough of this Morse bashing.