Originally Posted by OldManTime (Post 788644)

It seems that many villagers in the new districts bought there homes at a premium if there was one tree on the lot.

This was not necessarily the case when the OBG (Historic District) was developed by Harold Schwartz, where historic trees are all over the place.

Trees in florida are sacred, as well as water, but too many choose to cut down perfectly healthy trees, even chop them up and leave a trunk on there lot because they don't want to rake the leafs, and most are done by unlicensed not insured fly by night (mostly Saturday & Sunday)

I am not a tree hugger by all means, but if this continues we will look like a desert.

Villagers should know they are subject to fines for violating there deed restrictions.

Originally Posted by travelguy (Post 788782)

from what I remember of my US geography, prior to the " invasion" of the non-native settlers most land east of the Mississippi river was solid forest, as was most of the Pacific Coast, and the Rockies. Even the Great Plains had many tree stands. It was only when the settlers cleared the forests (including Florida) that cattle and crops were put on the land. Most of the droughts in the US are man-made due to the removal of the natural tree cover. Some of you refer to raking leaves and such; that is to cultivate an un-natural lawn. You don't see green lawns in the forests! I say, plants lots of trees and remove the lawns. And that's my opinion.