Cowboy lumberjacks have been risking public safety felling trees without permission across Livingston.Woodland Trust Scotland has written to 600 households bordering its Livingston woods after a spate of unauthorised felling.George Anderson of Woodland Trust Scotland said: “There is a lot of equipment and procedure involved in felling trees properly.
Contractors need to be qualified and know what they are doing otherwise they might cause a tree to fall on a passing member of the public or leave a pruned tree in a dangerous state.
Where trees are taken out from a block, those that are left can be at increased risk of blowing over in high winds. This is a busy town we are talking about here, not some wild remote hillside.
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