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It wasn't just one branch, but a series of branches.
Because of the clustering of lower branches it was useless as a swing, but invaluable as cover for aquatic life.
As for a citizen doing the deed, yeah that was a possibility, but they would have needed a crane and a dump truck to load up all the wood these branches would have created.
It's the same scenario I've seen at Jamaica Pond over the past 20+ years. A tree falls over INTO the water (no swing possibility) and they remove what would have been EXCELLENT cover for the fish.
It seems like the powers that be are more concerned with the facade of a pristine pond than the actual health of the pond.
Jamaica Pond is a prime example of this idiotic process.
The pond "USED" to have a thriving food chain. Healthy aquatic plant life, plenty of forage base fish and plenty of large predators (stocked and naturally reproducing).
Now, catching a large fish is only a possibility if you catch one of the stocked broodstock salmon they throw in there annually.
Catching a 5lb.+ LMB or a 12"+ perch or even just catching a pickerel is a pure fantasy. Sure, they may still exist in this pond, but you would have to spend every day in your attempt to find one of them! With the steady decline of the water quality, unchecked geese population, cornmorant population and human pollution this pond is a sad shadow of its former self.
I speak from experience, having fished there for 30+ years.
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