Exactly who decides these things??????

[FishermanTim]

I went fishing Saturday at Buckmaster Pond and found that "someone" has cut down a large branch from a tree that had been growing there for some years. The tree was not damaged, and the branch had been growing out over the water and providing shelter for fish during the summer months.

Who decides that these trees need to be cut, and exactly what is their criteria for doing these piss-poor pruning jobs in the first place?

It looks like the cities and towns think that fallen trees, branches or even branches hanging over water somehow detract from the artificially inflated appearance of these ponds.
Oddly enough, these same social rejects that feel that a tree that falls in the water is either a pollutant or an eyesore will do absolutely nothing about the garbage that is littering the pond bottom well within their same narrow field of vision.
They will also do nothing to combat the constant weed growth that chokes the waterway and creates a lovely bouquet of rotting plant life in the hot summer months, but they had the presence of mind to cut a branch that hung over the water.

Sure, I may be making a mountain out of a molehill.
Sure, it's only a tree branch.
But keep in mind that this happens with frightening regularity and is never discussed or diclosed. I only knew of it when I saw the after effect.

This same pond is "closed" from dusk to dawn. I guess I should thank the local teens for making that happen (based on police explaination).