Tree Protection Codes In California Growing

City ordinances throughout California have been passed over the last 30 years to protect the varied species of trees threatened by development.

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August 29, 2001, 10:00 AM PDT

By Abhijeet Chavan @http://twitter.com/legalaidtech

"In the past 30 years, as development pressures increased, scores of California cities and counties from Thousand Oaks in the south to Santa Rosa in the north have passed ordinances protecting not only various species and sizes of oaks, but also sycamores, walnuts, eucalyptus and other trees with a zeal that might make the poet Joyce Kilmer blush."

Thanks to Stu Baker

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