To the Editor:
Hello, my name is Tina Moody I live in Hopland. The reason for this letter is a tree service has come on our property and cut multiple trees down to the ground in the past two days and they say they are coming back to cut more in the name of PG&E.
In the 35 years I’ve lived in Mendocino County. The tree service contractors have always come through and trimmed and topped the trees, never have they ever cut them to the ground until now.
Our home is on a steep hillside. They have taken trees out directly beneath our home, with no other tree above it, whose roots can sustain the hillside. Now we have to fear erosion and our home slipping.
An employee of the tree service ignored my cries for him to stop cutting, told me it was state mandated. As chainsaws are decimating these trees, the tree service puts you through the voicemail, PGand E takes note of it, and Jim Woods office laughed.
This is an extreme violation and we cannot be the only people going through this.
Our supervisor Ted Williams basically said only the courts would have any chance of stopping this. So, so is it time for us to organize a class action lawsuit?
We have always appreciated the respectful care that the private tree companies have shown our properties.
Now it is just rape without any contact or warning.
-Tina Moody, Hopland