A landowner has the legal authority to engage in self-help and trim the branches.

Washington State Department of Transportation (WSDOT) practices an ecologically based program of roadside vegetation design and management that seeks to produce low-maintenance, self-sustaining plant communities. The use of native plants planted in the right location is integral to this system.

The Roadside Classification Plan provides policy on roadside character classifications and appropriate. Clark County has a legal responsibility under a January Washington Supreme Court decision to cut roadside vegetation so it does not limit or block a driver's view. Trimming roadside vegetation improves drainage and winter road maintenance, especially during snow and ice.

Design - Roadside and Site Development - Vegetation Resources.

This usually means that the tree will have a disease including Dutch elm, emerald ash borer or oak wilt.

Chapter of the Roadside Manual (pdf mb) contains guidelines that provide the background for the development of effective vegetation restoration methodologies. Two basic restoration approaches are used: managed succession and accelerated climax community development.

Whenever any person shall cut down, girdle, or otherwise injure, or carry off any tree, including a Christmas tree as defined in RCWtimber, or shrub on the land of another person, or on the street or highway in front of any person's house, city or town lot, or cultivated grounds, or on the commons or public grounds of any city or town, or on the street or highway in front thereof, without. Select a tree with a trunk six inches or less in diameter, and prepare to cut the tree no more than six inches above ground level.

Never cut a tall tree just for the top. Select a tree from overstocked areas and thickets.

Arboriculture and Urban Forestry 32,

Watch restricted areas. Cut only one tree per tag. Attach your tree tag to harvested tree before placing in vehicle. Jul 30, State & municipal highway departments need to have adjacent landowner permission to cut or trim trees adjacent to or even in the ROW of a road; while they.