well, I couldn't see the wind...yuk yuk.
truthfully, it wasn't a tree that looked vulnerable, seemed pretty healthy just on the outside of my fence. I've gone as far as removing or at least pruning many others over the years, for protection of my property, but never complained to the town or the Dept of Conservation & Recreation.
Over the years several have come down or lost large limbs around the perimeter of my property which is surrounded by Blue Hills Reservation. On a side note, though it is really just a 640 foot high hill, there is a weather station atop Great Blue Hill, easily seen from my house, that records some of the highest wind mph in the nation...I think...and is the highest point within 10 miles of the Atlantic coast between Maine and Florida.
A few of these drops have forced me to replace sections of my fence, plus pay to have cut up and removed. Some have landed on the area between my side yard and the neighbor's which neither of us own...town calls it Open Space or something like that.
Theoretically anyone can walk through that land to the end of a "paper street" that leads to a path (that I maintain) that I have been calling an easement, leading to a bridle path that connects to one of the myriad of hiking paths/trails through the vast Reservation.
This Spring I received a letter and a visit from a Lt/Ranger from the DCR because "a concerned citizen" reported large amounts of yard waste and stuff on state owned land abutting my property. He turned out to be a great guy, never followed up after I promised to have the stuff removed (I did) and laughed when I told him I was just returning the stuff to the forest from whence it came. He accepted some blame as the actually boundary is not marked...though surveyors could establish the line.
But as long as the Gov has established rules for our coexistence after 20 years of allowing me to do their work, I think I should tell them that something they own is on my property and broke my fence.
