Tag: tree cutting

Laguna Woods Looks to Remove 300 Pine Trees, Sparking Concerns From Residents

LAGUNA WOODS, Calif.—A landscape committee in a Laguna Woods retirement community identified nearly 300 potentially hazardous Canary Island pine trees, with an ongoing public debate on whether these 60-foot-tall conifers should be uprooted. “The Canary Island pines were planted … very close together,” Kurt Weimann, director of Laguna Woods Village’s Landscaping Services, told The Epoch…


Trans Mountain Tree Cutting Can Resume as Stop Work Order on Pipeline Route Lifts

CALGARY—A federal regulator has lifted a stop−work order on tree cutting and grass mowing along the route of the Trans Mountain pipeline expansion project. The Canada Energy Regulator says in a statement Trans Mountain has submitted a plan to correct deficiencies in the oversight of its contractors that could pose threats to nesting birds. The…