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 | | The Nebraska native has encountered all manner of arboreal shenanigans on the job, from the overzealous - and illegal - topping of city trees to vigilante "girdling," a processes whereby an unbroken circumference of bark is chiseled from a tree's trunk, breaking the continuous flow of water and nutrients and often killing the plant. |
 | | Usually such acts are commissioned with a view to improving visual access to that vaunted Northwest scenery of mountains, water or, ironically enough, more trees, and they can be carried out by anyone from the lone homeowner wielding a chainsaw, to a private arborist hired to trim some bothersome foliage. |
 | | Rundquist says that of the two or three tree-related violations he sees every week, most cases involve the improper topping and trimming of trees on city property. |
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