Homeowner narrowly saves trees from removal scam

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Homeowner narrowly saves trees from removal scam - Lemmy.World

Those guys are amateurs. Try being the Uk government—compulsorily purchase private land for new rail line, hand lucrative contracts to your mates to clear mature oaks (which they get to keep, worth £5k each), accidentally clear more than is needed, then cancel the rail line.
Or Sheffield council and Amey cutting down healthy trees because they thought it would generate more profit in the street maintenance contract.
Sheffield tree felling protests - Wikipedia